Quotes by Timothy Noah

About Timothy Noah:

Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author. He is currently the labor policy editor for Politico. Previously he was a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, and before that he was senior editor of The New Republic, where he wrote the "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012 Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.
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The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.

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Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

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The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.

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The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.

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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

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The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

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The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

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Universities are basically socialist institutions.

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The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

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Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

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The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

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When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

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When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

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One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.

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One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

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GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements.

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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.

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The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.

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There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.

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The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'

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Author Bio

  • NameTimothy Noah
  • DescriptionColumnist, senior writer for Slate Magazine
  • Born1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist