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" 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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" 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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" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "

" The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. "

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" The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. "

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

" Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership. "

" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" 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. "

" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "

" 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. "

" The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. "

" The financial services industry is a ward of the state. "

" 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. "

" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "

Timothy Noah

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Finance

" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "

" To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. "

" Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country. "

" If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. "

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Last

" Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. "

" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "

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

" 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. "

" When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. "

" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "

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" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "

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

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

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