"Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering……" — Matt Taibbi
"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 out."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi has 108 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old…
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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…
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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…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism.…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being…
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