I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's… — 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
We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any… — 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
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of… — 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
