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
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 Copy Share Image
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing;… — 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
What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the… — 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
“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 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
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
