Jobs Quotes by Matt Taibbi

8 Jobs quotes by Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi’s sharp commentary surfaces in these eight snippets, delivering a concise, critical look at work and its broader implications.

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I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced…

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This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts…

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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…

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In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and…

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Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with…

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

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In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market…

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The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry…

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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an…

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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

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You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely…

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George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the…

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“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…

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