"Acknowledging class was always difficult for ‘New Democrats’ – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again."
― Thomas Frank
Topic(s):
Patience
More From Thomas Frank
- "For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate."
- "There is much to dislike about President Obama’s approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch."
- "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."
More In Patience
- "It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."― Hart Crane
- "Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."― Saint Francis de Sales
- "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."― Isaac Newton