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" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "

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" Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. "

" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "

" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "

" Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. "

" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "

" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

" The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. "

" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "

" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "

" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "

" When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. "

" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "

" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "

" Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush. "

" If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.' "

" Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. "

" President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president. "

" The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "

" Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. "

" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "

" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "

" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "

" Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. "

" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "

" What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. "

" Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. "