Matt Taibbi Quotes

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• Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
• To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight…
• Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to…
• The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing…
• There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning…
• For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional…
• Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the…
• Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for…
• The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that…
• The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the…
• Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces…
• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money…
• At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
• Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
• I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.
• If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
• It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
• The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business…
• The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair…
• There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand…

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