Thomas Frank Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?”

“Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.”

“Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.”

“People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.”

“The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.”

“The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.”

“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.”

“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.”

“These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.”

“Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.”