Timothy Noah quote: "Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority."

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The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revil...
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I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
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It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
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One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
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Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some s...
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The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to govern...
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In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
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The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
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Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
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The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
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The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
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There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
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The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
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On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is jus...
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Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when ...
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Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
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Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
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The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them...
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
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The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude t...
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If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations th...
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We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front...
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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted...
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The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is t...
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One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little rel...
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
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You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes cons...
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Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending...
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Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphan...
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We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so drama...
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Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Associat...
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The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociolo...
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
YANNICK NOAH

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Ca...
JOAKIM NOAH

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
YANNICK NOAH

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally ...
TREVOR NOAH

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administr...
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During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our...
NOAH FELDMAN

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want...
TREVOR NOAH

William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to...
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Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
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You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be ...
TREVOR NOAH

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
NOAH PORTER

Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superi...
NOAH WEBSTER

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something a...
NOAH WEBSTER

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
NOAH PORTER

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of...
NOAH FELDMAN

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommoda...
TREVOR NOAH

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I ...
NOAH BAUMBACH

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
YANNICK NOAH

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my ...
JOAKIM NOAH

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm ve...
NOAH BAUMBACH

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not th...
NOAH WEBSTER

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so...
NOAH WEBSTER

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all ch...
NOAH WEBSTER

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any govern...
NOAH WEBSTER

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.
TREVOR NOAH

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
NOAH WEBSTER

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't inte...
TREVOR NOAH

I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn'...
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I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix...
TREVOR NOAH

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not dif...
NOAH FELDMAN

Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.
NOAH HAWLEY

My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in ...
TREVOR NOAH

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. Bu...
TREVOR NOAH

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...
NOAH WEBSTER

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where ...
NOAH HAWLEY

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is t...
NOAH CICERO

What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less r...
NOAH FELDMAN

The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.
NOAH HAWLEY

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to...
NOAH FELDMAN

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not anal...
NOAH BAUMBACH

Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close fri...
NOAH BAUMBACH

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ...
TREVOR NOAH

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republi...
NOAH FELDMAN

To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme C...
NOAH FELDMAN

The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people wer...
NOAH FELDMAN

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - inclu...
NOAH FELDMAN

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction...
TREVOR NOAH

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
NOAH TAYLOR

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events...
NOAH BAUMBACH

America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of d...
TREVOR NOAH

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
NOAH FELDMAN

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ...
JOAKIM NOAH

I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ...
TREVOR NOAH

We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbre...
NOAH COWAN

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Eve...
NOAH FELDMAN

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, '...
TREVOR NOAH

We flew to Miami and then chartered a plane here to be on time. I'm really excited, I'm proud of him...
YANNICK NOAH

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other...
NOAH BAUMBACH

It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writ...
NOAH HAWLEY

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m...
NOAH BAUMBACH

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
NOAH HATHAWAY

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, y...
NOAH EMMERICH

So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.
NOAH HATHAWAY

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. ...
TREVOR NOAH

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick...
NOAH BAUMBACH

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
NOAH BAUMBACH

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
NOAH HATHAWAY

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism...
NOAH FELDMAN

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her wh...
NOAH HAWLEY

I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they cro...
NOAH HAWLEY

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the...
NOAH HAWLEY

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that...
NOAH HAWLEY

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it...
NOAH HAWLEY

I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru...
NOAH HAWLEY

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fictio...
NOAH HAWLEY

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provide...
NOAH FELDMAN

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar an...
NOAH WYLE

This is the SEC. We've got to be ready at all times. We've got to be on edge. It's unacceptable.
JOAKIM NOAH

We like to say it's acoustic driven rock.
NOAH SMITH

Self-realization is attained only when we comprehend the difference between the things we could own ...
NELSON NOAH

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When comb...
NOAH FELDMAN

I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't for...
TREVOR NOAH

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
TREVOR NOAH

When I see this atmosphere, I miss tennis. It's a lot tougher, because you feel helpless and can't h...
YANNICK NOAH

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.
NOAH GORDON

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era mak...
NOAH FELDMAN

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who ...
NOAH FELDMAN

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in la...
NOAH FELDMAN

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said t...
TREVOR NOAH

A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
NOAH EMMERICH

I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as har...
YANNICK NOAH

We weren't supposed to make it here in time for the game but we flew to Miami and chartered a plane ...
YANNICK NOAH

Looking back, that was selfish of me.
YANNICK NOAH

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I fe...
YANNICK NOAH

I'm really surprised by the way he's playing, especially the last few weeks. He's working hard, and ...
YANNICK NOAH

I don't think anybody had to tell Al what to do. Al took it on himself. He played like a warrior. I'...
JOAKIM NOAH

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't ...
NOAH BAUMBACH

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political...
NOAH FELDMAN

Life is not being good or bad, Its how much we desire to choose between them
NELSON NOAH

In a way, machines are lucky because they are not produced by chance or mistake
NELSON NOAH

It's pretty exciting to play Kentucky on Saturday, that's always a date you circle on the calendar. ...
JOAKIM NOAH

It's really exciting getting to play Kentucky on Saturday, and that's always a game that you circle ...
JOAKIM NOAH

I'm at a loss for words. It's a tough loss, especially after a big win like Kentucky.
JOAKIM NOAH

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would r...
NOAH BAUMBACH

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her ...
NOAH WEBSTER

Every creature alive lives by the Golden Rule, which they take to mean - get all the gold you can
NOAH GOLDSTEIN

What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to any...
TREVOR NOAH

There's a lot of pressure on our quarterback. We run a no-huddle offense, and he makes all the line ...
NOAH FEHRENBACH

When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wa...
NOAH HAWLEY

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
NOAH TAYLOR

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Re...
NOAH BAUMBACH

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomina...
NOAH WEBSTER

When you are on the court sometimes, you just have to pay attention to detail. It is harder, but at ...
JOAKIM NOAH

There were little things addressed a while ago that we needed to work on, and we didn't do that to t...
JOAKIM NOAH

Corey means everything to this team, but at the same time, we need him to be 100 percent and if that...
JOAKIM NOAH

In games like this, it's all about having fun.
JOAKIM NOAH

In a game like this, it's all about having fun and just playing hard.
JOAKIM NOAH

It's like I'm in a cloud. Not only does this feel good, but it smells good and it tastes good. I can...
JOAKIM NOAH

People remember champions. That's the way it is.
JOAKIM NOAH

I'm like, 'Dude, chill out. Just drink a couple beers, watch the game. Just let me play.' He stresse...
JOAKIM NOAH

It meant a lot more to us than it did to them, we just didn't play that way. Sometimes after a big w...
JOAKIM NOAH

We didn't come out with the same intensity (as Saturday). We needed to come out and play with intens...
JOAKIM NOAH

This game mattered a lot more to us than it did to them. But we didn't play that way.
JOAKIM NOAH

(The run) was definitely the key, but at the same time, I feel like it was a 40-minute effort. Every...
JOAKIM NOAH

He's an animal, everybody knows that. We just came at him with different traps. He weighs so much an...
JOAKIM NOAH

This building has to bother the opponents, no matter who they are. They can't hear. It gives us ener...
JOAKIM NOAH

We have a lot to learn from those two losses. We just have to keep playing hard no matter who we pla...
JOAKIM NOAH

I usually do that against Savannah State, too.
JOAKIM NOAH

We're all laughing about it now. Come [tonight], it's not going to be funny at all.
JOAKIM NOAH

It sucks. But we just need to get him back. I know he's probably pretty embarrassed, but we just nee...
JOAKIM NOAH

We're in a situation where we lost our best game and we're not sure if we're going to have our best ...
JOAKIM NOAH

We're a young team and sometimes you have to learn from your experiences. Even when we were winning ...
JOAKIM NOAH

We're back to step one — no respect. We're just going to grind it out like we did at the beginning...
JOAKIM NOAH

Everybody stepped up. We weren't going to lose three in a row, especially not at home.
JOAKIM NOAH

If we worried about as many things as you guys do, our heads would explode. We're just out there pla...
JOAKIM NOAH

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

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Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

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