I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually… — 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
You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because… — 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
I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the… — 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 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 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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