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Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist,…
— Nick Clegg
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A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of…
— Van Jones
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Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation…
— Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not…
— Molly Ivins
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At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater,…
— Diane Paulus
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.
— Van Jones
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I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the…
— Wolfgang Schauble
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Populism is dangerous.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are…
— William Kristol
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A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was…
— Thomas Frank
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What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.
— Mark Gevisser
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of…
— Umberto Eco
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