"Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded……" — Thomas Frank
"Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle."
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82 Quotes by Thomas Frank
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This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre…
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank…
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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've…
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What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries…
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering…
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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to…
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to…
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