“Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a...” — Alex Pareene Quote

“Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.”

“In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.”

“Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.”

“I don't actually know the most expensive thing I've ever bought. It would probably be a jacket, because I don't really spend that much on any other things.”

“It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.”

“It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.”