Matt Taibbi Quotes

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

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

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.

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.

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.