231 Quotes by Matt Taibbi



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    America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

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    Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

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    America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

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    What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

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    Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

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    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.

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    Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

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