“Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution...” — Timothy Noah Quote

“Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.”

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

“Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.”

“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.”

“Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.”

“When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'”

“The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.”

“If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.”

“The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.”

“In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.”

“The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.”

“I believe that the Constitution is an enduring document.”