Constitution Quote by Matthew Yglesias

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on…

— Matthew Yglesias

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

— Matthew Yglesias

Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American…

— Matthew Yglesias

I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

— Matthew Yglesias

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

— Matthew Yglesias

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

— Matthew Yglesias

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

— Matthew Yglesias

Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

— Matthew Yglesias

The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and…

— Matthew Yglesias

It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make…

— Matthew Yglesias

A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this…

— Matthew Yglesias

I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist…

— Matthew Yglesias