Kindlehighlight Quote by Matt Taibbi Download Open image ““intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When”” — Matt Taibbi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kindlehighlight Politics Red tape
“When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red… — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“Governments are too stupid to understand that too much red tape does not bind a nation together—it tears it apart.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“A gigantic, bloated government has to keep itself busy in order to justify its existence; hence, you have more regulations and meddling in the… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It’s at the heart of the conservative critique of… — Jim Geraghty Copy Share Image
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Modern corporate controlled governments are in the business of covering things up.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by anyone well… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Government, deriving its authority from the people as a whole, must act as a fiduciary to protect the natural resources held in trust from… — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codified overreactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again. They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual. This is how bureaucracies are born. No one sets out to create a bureaucracy. They sneak up on companies slowly. They are created one policy—one scar—at a time. So don’t scar on the… — Jason Fried Copy Share
“But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick… — John Stossel No They can t Pg 32 Threshold Editions New York New York 2012 Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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 - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
'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… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.” — David Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
“I pulled the dress out of the bag and held it in front of me. Ella sat up straighter and squinted her eyes, while Michael and Paco made the noises men make when a woman says, “What do you think?” Fathers probably teach those noises to their sons when they’re young—“Stand up when you’re introduced to a lady, use your… — Blaize Clement Copy Share
“little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right.… — Paul Miller Copy Share Image
“What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is… — R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey Copy Share Image
That love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took… — William J. Bennett Copy Share Image
“I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been… — Frank I. Luntz Copy Share Image
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