Kevin Drum Quotes

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

[Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.

If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it.

In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of America has insurance coverage.

If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.

It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.

The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.