Thomas Frank Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.”

“Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.”

“I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.”

“When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.”

“Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.”

“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.”

“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”

“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?”

“Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.”

“Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.”