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Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

Expressing truth is hard work.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland.

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Working people vote!

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'

Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.

The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands.

The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.

Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.

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