Yglesias Matthew Quotes

#1. A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.

Matthew Yglesias

#2. I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

Matthew Yglesias

#3. The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

Matthew Yglesias

#4. To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Euripides

#6. Earlier this week Donald Trump gave an interview with CNN at a winery he owns in Virginia. It turns out Trump's winery makes two different kinds of wine: white wine and not-white wine.

Jimmy Fallon

#7. In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

Matthew Yglesias

#8. I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

R. Lee Ermey

#9. We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

Victoria Osteen

#10. Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

Karen Salmansohn

#11. My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short.

Judy Blume

#12. I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

Matthew Yglesias

#13. Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

Matthew Yglesias

#14. I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

Matthew Yglesias

#15. The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Matthew Yglesias

#16. People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

John Michael Higgins

#17. Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

Matthew Yglesias

#19. You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams.

Tina Fey

#20. There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Myrtle Reed

#21. Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.

Matthew Yglesias

#22. A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

Jonas Salk