We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way - and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.