Top 150 Quotes by Timothy Noah

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.

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.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.