Quotes from Timothy Noah

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

Working people vote!

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.

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

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.

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

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

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

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.

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.

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.

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

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.

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.

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