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Them Quotes by Matt Taibbi
- At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
- The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
- The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
- 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…
- 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…
- The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money…
- What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to…
- You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out…
- The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were…
- The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government.…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster