"Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure……" — Matt Taibbi
"Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process."
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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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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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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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More Court Quotes
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one of 1,515 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on…
— Arthur Ashe
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I…
— Michele Bachmann
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
— Gary Bauer
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me…
— Brendan Behan
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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The…
— Joe Biden
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When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while…
— Nellie Bly
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But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and…
— Andre Agassi
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Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben…
— Elayne Boosler
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function…
— Robert Bork
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The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America…
— Anthony Bourdain
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