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 central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

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

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Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

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I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.

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If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

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The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

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Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

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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.

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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.

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We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

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In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

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Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

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Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

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Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

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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.

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Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

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Author Bio

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