"The federal government does not trample in jackboots……" — Timothy Noah
"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, apologizes profusely."
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70 Quotes by Timothy Noah
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
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If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about…
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Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
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The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot -…
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Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
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The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
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The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
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Working people vote!
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in…
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More Apologizes Quotes
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
— Jackie Mason
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I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The…
— Tahereh Mafi
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A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat…
— Terry Brooks
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The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without…
— Gregory Maguire
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And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop…
— Taylor Swift
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Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting…
— Rick Riordan
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Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes,…
— Rachel Caine
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He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these…
— Neil Gaiman
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Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word,…
— Margaret George
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Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
— Kelsey Grammer
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