Best Matt Taibbi Sayings
- Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a… Bad
- In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you… Bank
- John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington,… American
- '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 Street… Bank
- 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution… American
- Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… Adjustment
- By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall… American
- By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal… Acts
- Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle… Associated
- Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the… Airplane
- Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns… Blue
- Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out… Adversarial
- For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute… Absolute
- George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush… Administration
- I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business,… Afghanistan
- If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day… Animal
- In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives… America
- In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got… Always Got
- In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower… All
- In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade.… Afterward
- Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is… Affect
- 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 crisis… Aaa Rating
- 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 fail… All
- Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic… Christian
- Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors,… Commit
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