Thomas Frank Quotes

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• When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
• Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in…
• Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it…
• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama…
• We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our…
• Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the…
• As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is…
• As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything…
• Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private…
• Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful…
• Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In…
• Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care…
• In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't…
• In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives…
• It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a…
• Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he…
• Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.
• Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the…
• Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag…
• Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough,…

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