Matt Taibbi

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

— Matt Taibbi

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

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so…

— Matt Taibbi

“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

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

— Matt Taibbi

“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

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a…

— Matt Taibbi

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

— Matt Taibbi

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more…

— Matt Taibbi

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian…

— Matt Taibbi

“They thought they were employing an economy-saving doctrine of situational leniency, but they somehow failed to understand that by coming up with…

— Matt Taibbi

Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans…

— Matt Taibbi

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be…

— Matt Taibbi

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the…

— Matt Taibbi

“These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just…

— Matt Taibbi

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law…

— Matt Taibbi

“In the Orwellian dystopia the original sin was thoughtcrime, but in our new corporate dystopia the secret inner crime is need, particularly…

— Matt Taibbi

“He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he’s perfected over the past months. It’s a nodding wave, a…

— Matt Taibbi

“The key thing, the one thing that almost every current and former federal prosecutor who lived through this period talks about, is…

— Matt Taibbi

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

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

— Matt Taibbi

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…

— Matt Taibbi

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away…

— Matt Taibbi

“The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the…

— Matt Taibbi

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

— Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the…

— Matt Taibbi

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

— Matt Taibbi

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing…

— Matt Taibbi

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

— Matt Taibbi

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

— Matt Taibbi

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

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see…

— Matt Taibbi

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues…

— Matt Taibbi

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…

— Matt Taibbi

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat…

— Matt Taibbi

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper…

— Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is…

— Matt Taibbi

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted…

— Matt Taibbi

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But…

— Matt Taibbi

“Chase’s was a junkie’s banking strategy, shooting speed in the morning and spending all day foraging for the cash to dope down…

— Matt Taibbi