Top 150 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

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

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.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

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