Timothy Noah Quotes

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• With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
• Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
• The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from…
• The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
• The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.
• In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
• Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
• What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.
• Universities are basically socialist institutions.
• President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
• There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos.…
• Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
• Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President…
• Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
• The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
• A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
• No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
• Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
• The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.
• Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank,…

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