Matt Taibbi Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Matt Taibbi quotes and sayings page 7 (54 year old author). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 95 we have for him.
“In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.”
“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.”
“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.”
“Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.”
“For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.”
“I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.”
“The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.”
“In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.”
“Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.”
“The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.”
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