Top 150 Quotes by Timothy Noah

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

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

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.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

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