Thomas Frank Quotes

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• The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as…
• When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a…
• When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own…
• Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
• For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
• Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
• I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.
• I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
• Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?
• Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
• Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
• Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
• People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
• Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
• Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
• Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.
• Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
• Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
• The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.
• What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of…

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