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" When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. "
Timothy Noah
Conservative
Serious
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" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "
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" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "
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" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "
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" The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. "
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" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "
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" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "
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" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "
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" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "
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" For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. "
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" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "
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Free
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" The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. "
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Cotton
Business
Batting
" 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. "
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Always
Global Warming
Support
" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "
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You
Were
" Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. "
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Whatever
Support
" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "
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Universities
Socialist
" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "
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Pathetic
Bitter
" To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy. "
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Health
Survival
You
" Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. "
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Liar
Wrong
Run
" The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. "
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Rich
Society
American
" We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much. "
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Money
Need
College
" You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. "
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Suck
You
World
" We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. "
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Political
Story
Discovery
" The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' "
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Inevitable
Same
Result
" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "
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Want
Pay
Government
" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "
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Student Loans
Student
Possible
" If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned. "
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Guide
Most
" Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise. "
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Always
Risk
Skeleton
" The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. "
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Time
Impossible
" To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. "
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Eat
Cookies
Budget