Timothy Noah

“For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.”

“Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.”

“The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.”

“The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.”

“The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.”

“What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.”

“What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.”

“To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.”

“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.”

“Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.”