The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
From Timothy Noah
We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.
When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.
A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.
If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
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.
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
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