“One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.” WayDoeStillsCountrySometimesMembersEmbarrassingOne LoveFamily Members Author:Matt Taibbi
“You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.” ThinkingWorldWayPersonsDifferentNextDoorsMediaInformationLandscapeIsolatedDifferent Worlds Author:Matt Taibbi
“Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.” WayUnionsRussiaClassicEmpiresSovietSoviet Union Author:Matt Taibbi
“An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.” WorldWayGivingStreetsWallTaxesDerivatives Author:Matt Taibbi
“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.” PeopleWayProblemUsedInterestPartyTeaAgendasScareTea Party Author:Matt Taibbi
“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.” WayGivingFactsDealsCuttingHappenedTroubleTelevisionIndustryInternetOrganizationMagazinesJournalismPrintCheckersInvestigative JournalismBroadcast Journalism Author:Matt Taibbi
“Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.” WayHas BeensCorruptionConstructionContracting Author:Matt Taibbi
“I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.” WayHardKidsBitsPleasureGrowing UpGrowingHard WorkKids Growing Up Author:Matt Taibbi
“George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.” WayHeartReligiousScaryRationalAdministrationCynicalDeep Down Author:Matt Taibbi
