Matt Taibbi Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.”

“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.”

“I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.”

“If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.”

“In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.”

“The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.”

“The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.”

“Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.”

“Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.”

“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.”