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Working people vote!
Expressing truth is hard work.
Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.
Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.
The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
Universities are basically socialist institutions.
The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.
The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.
Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.
I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.
The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.
When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.