Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. – Timothy Noah
I’d never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won’t. – Timothy Noah
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. – Timothy Noah
Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout – that, in essence, you’re telling the middle class, ‘Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.’ – Timothy Noah
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn’t enough truth to go around. – Timothy Noah
You know what isn’t class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. – Timothy Noah
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. – Timothy Noah
When a conservative praises a liberal as ‘morally serious,’ he means that person is less liberal than most. – Timothy Noah
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there’s always the word of the Iraqis themselves. – Timothy Noah
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn’t. It’s just hiding behind a call center in Manila. – Timothy Noah
I’ve come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases – and so, I think, has President Obama. – Timothy Noah
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. – Timothy Noah
You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn’t have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. – Timothy Noah
The GOP doesn’t seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. – Timothy Noah
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse. – Timothy Noah
Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that’s codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. – Timothy Noah
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. – Timothy Noah
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. – Timothy Noah
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too. – Timothy Noah
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. – Timothy Noah
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. – Timothy Noah
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I’m happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. – Timothy Noah
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. – Timothy Noah
