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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President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.

Timothy Noah

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

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

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

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The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.

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You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

Timothy Noah

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.

Timothy Noah

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Timothy Noah

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

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.

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Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

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Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

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The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

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Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

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Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

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Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

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Expressing truth is hard work.

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When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.

Timothy Noah

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

Timothy Noah

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

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Author Bio

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