Quotes by Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank

Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

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

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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.

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Sea

Most of Roosevelt’s innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

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Years

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.

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Principles

Writing

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government’s justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

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Law

People

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

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Presidential

Valuable

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

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Empty

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

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Interest

These Days

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

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Quotes by Thomas Frank

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

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.

Most of Roosevelt’s innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.

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.

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

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

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

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

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