Matt Taibbi Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.”

“In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.”

“The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.”

“There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.”

“America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.”

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

“Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.”

“The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.”

“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.”

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