Timothy Noah Quotes
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Timothy Noah Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.
What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.
When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
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 to be president.
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.