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Matt Taibbi Quotes

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done Picture Quote #1

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy Picture Quote #1

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial Picture Quote #1

This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity Picture Quote #1

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists Picture Quote #1

The significance of Columbus’s discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth Picture Quote #1

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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 their power to take away politicians’ jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that’s when the real weirdness begins Picture Quote #1

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality Picture Quote #1

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 and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn’t happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society Picture Quote #1

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides Picture Quote #1

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you’ll buy products that they’re advertising Picture Quote #1

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove Picture Quote #1

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Private equity firms aren’t necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead Picture Quote #1

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and ‘Snow White’ videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone Picture Quote #1

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 crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for Picture Quote #1

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It’s about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget Picture Quote #1

In the 50s and 60s, journalism wasn’t a profession. It wasn’t something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job Picture Quote #1

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will take our country back from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don’t realize is, theres a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change Picture Quote #1

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I didn’t know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit Picture Quote #1

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality Picture Quote #1

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world’s outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish Picture Quote #1

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual’s pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty Picture Quote #1

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they’d be looking for jobs again Picture Quote #1

One loves one’s country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them Picture Quote #1

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I don’t often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating Picture Quote #1

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we’re not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let’s mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence Picture Quote #1

The only reason investors haven’t run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed Picture Quote #1

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 Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth - and nobody went to jail Picture Quote #1

You might think otherwise, but it doesn’t naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented Picture Quote #1

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them Picture Quote #1

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We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy (Matt Taibbi Quotes) America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial (Matt Taibbi Quotes) This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity (Matt Taibbi Quotes) It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists (Matt Taibbi Quotes) The significance of Columbus’s discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that’s when the real weirdness begins (Matt Taibbi Quotes) There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality (Matt Taibbi Quotes) 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 and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn’t happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society (Matt Taibbi Quotes) What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you’ll buy products that they’re advertising. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Private equity firms aren’t necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and ‘Snow White’ videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone (Matt Taibbi Quotes) 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 crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for (Matt Taibbi Quotes) Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It’s about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget (Matt Taibbi Quotes) In the 50s and 60s, journalism wasn’t a profession. It wasn’t something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job (Matt Taibbi Quotes) In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will take our country back from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don’t realize is, theres a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change (Matt Taibbi Quotes) I didn’t know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit (Matt Taibbi Quotes) It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world’s outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual’s pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they’d be looking for jobs again. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) One loves one’s country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) I don’t often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we’re not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let’s mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) The only reason investors haven’t run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) 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 Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth - and nobody went to jail. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) You might think otherwise, but it doesn’t naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented. (Matt Taibbi Quotes) The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them. (Matt Taibbi Quotes)

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