Matt Taibbi

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…

— Matt Taibbi

Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…

— Matt Taibbi

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

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what…

— Matt Taibbi

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…

— Matt Taibbi

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company…

— Matt Taibbi

The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks…

— Matt Taibbi

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be…

— Matt Taibbi

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But…

— Matt Taibbi

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people…

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Matt Taibbi

“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses…

— Matt Taibbi

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat…

— 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

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law…

— Matt Taibbi

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because…

— Matt Taibbi

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues…

— Matt Taibbi

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we…

— Matt Taibbi

“It’s become a cliché by now, but since 2008, no high-ranking executive from any financial institution has gone to jail, not one,…

— Matt Taibbi

“These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America’s ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just…

— Matt Taibbi

“Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.”

— Matt Taibbi

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

— Matt Taibbi