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Thomas Frank Quotes

As it happens, Chicago is the nation’s leader in municipal privatization efforts. That’s right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city’s South Side, back in 2005 Picture Quote #1

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains Picture Quote #1

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace Picture Quote #1

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It’s not as if people don’t know what is going on Picture Quote #1

We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars Picture Quote #1

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what’s on the line is American liberty itself Picture Quote #1

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One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn’t work on this mirror principle - you don’t have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn’t work that way Picture Quote #1

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party Picture Quote #1

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the ‘Waterloo’ Republicans dream of Picture Quote #1

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they’ve done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm Picture Quote #1

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate Picture Quote #1

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians Picture Quote #1

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I was in a bad mood when I wrote that Picture Quote #1

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years Picture Quote #1

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad Picture Quote #1

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source Picture Quote #1

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them Picture Quote #1

Government is, by it's very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains Picture Quote #1

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Liberal that I am, I support health care reform on it's merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses Picture Quote #1

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep sea oil wells Picture Quote #1

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way Picture Quote #1

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for it's daring, market friendly innovations Picture Quote #1

The only truly individualistic health care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out of pocket for health services as you need them Picture Quote #1

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch Picture Quote #1

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Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society Picture Quote #1

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen Picture Quote #1

I think there’s great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances Picture Quote #1

Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer Picture Quote #1

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn’t deny it and doesn’t try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself Picture Quote #1

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires Picture Quote #1

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As it happens, Chicago is the nation’s leader in municipal privatization efforts. That’s right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city’s South Side, back in 2005. (Thomas Frank Quotes) Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. (Thomas Frank Quotes) The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. (Thomas Frank Quotes) In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It’s not as if people don’t know what is going on. (Thomas Frank Quotes) We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars. (Thomas Frank Quotes) While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what’s on the line is American liberty itself. (Thomas Frank Quotes) One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn’t work on this mirror principle - you don’t have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn’t work that way (Thomas Frank Quotes) What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party (Thomas Frank Quotes) Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the ‘Waterloo’ Republicans dream of (Thomas Frank Quotes) In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they’ve done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm (Thomas Frank Quotes) For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate (Thomas Frank Quotes) Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians (Thomas Frank Quotes) I was in a bad mood when I wrote that (Thomas Frank Quotes) Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years (Thomas Frank Quotes) Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad (Thomas Frank Quotes) There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source (Thomas Frank Quotes) Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them (Thomas Frank Quotes) Government is, by it's very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains (Thomas Frank Quotes) Liberal that I am, I support health care reform on it's merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses (Thomas Frank Quotes) Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep sea oil wells (Thomas Frank Quotes) One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way (Thomas Frank Quotes) Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for it's daring, market friendly innovations (Thomas Frank Quotes) The only truly individualistic health care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out of pocket for health services as you need them (Thomas Frank Quotes) There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch (Thomas Frank Quotes) Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society (Thomas Frank Quotes) Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen (Thomas Frank Quotes) I think there’s great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances (Thomas Frank Quotes) Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer (Thomas Frank Quotes) What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn’t deny it and doesn’t try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself (Thomas Frank Quotes) During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires (Thomas Frank Quotes)

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