Top 150 Quotes by Timothy Noah

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.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

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.

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

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

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

When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.