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
George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see… — 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
What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened… — 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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