Timothy Noah Quotes

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• Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up…
• Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
• Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
• Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points?…
• Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
• In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.
• In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
• Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
• The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
• 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.
• On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
• The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
• The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
• Expressing truth is hard work.
• 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…
• Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
• 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…
• The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of…
• It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

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