In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
