Timothy Noah Quotes

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• Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
• If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
• The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
• The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption…
• Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
• With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
• The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect -…
• 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,…
• Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
• The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
• The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
• Working people vote!
• The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip…
• You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
• The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of…
• The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend…
• If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better…
• Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
• The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.
• Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

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