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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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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
— Tony Judt
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Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a…
— Denise Chavez
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But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy…
— Jack Newfield
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You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in…
— Tom Robbins
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations…
— Terry Eagleton
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Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
— Matt Taibbi
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Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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