Trump Quotes by Matt Taibbi

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

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

— Matt Taibbi

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's…

— 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

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,…

— Matt Taibbi

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two…

— Matt Taibbi

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was…

— Matt Taibbi

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing;…

— Matt Taibbi

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

“Bill Clinton’s political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free…

— Matt Taibbi

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they…

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Matt Taibbi

“Bill Clinton's political formula for seizing the presidency was simple. He made money tight in the ghettos and let it flow free…

— 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

“But the ineffectiveness of “facts” didn’t stop there. The election of Trump was not just a political choice, a vote against minorities…

— Matt Taibbi

“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch…

— Matt Taibbi

“In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the…

— Matt Taibbi

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey…

— 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

“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