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"Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again."

Thomas Frank on Cool

More quotes about Cool

  • "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

    Thomas Jefferson on Cool

  • "Rather be dead than cool."

    Kurt Cobain on Cool

  • "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

    Angelina Jolie on Cool

  • "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

    Walt Whitman on Cool

  • "It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."

    Bill Gates on Cool

More quotes by Thomas Frank

  • "We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from."

  • "Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses."

  • "Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense."

  • "Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle."

  • "The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace."

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