Kevin Drum Quotes & Sayings

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. — Kevin Drum

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

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS. — Kevin Drum

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

We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits. — Kevin Drum

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

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

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

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

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: "If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against." That's certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way. — Kevin Drum

In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way. — Kevin Drum

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

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. — Kevin Drum

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

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

Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard? — Kevin Drum

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

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

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. — Kevin Drum

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

Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate. — Kevin Drum

Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment. — Kevin Drum

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

The fallout from the Supreme Court halfway killing Obamacare would likely be more serious than conservatives believe ... Even their own base, which has been told relentlessly that Obamacare represents the end of the America they love, might start to demand a fix once it becomes clear just what they're missing-& what all those blue states with their own exchanges are getting. — Kevin Drum