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“The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.”

Quote by Matt Taibbi

Book:Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

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Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into the multifaceted nature of a fictional empire in decline, examining its social, political, and cultural aspects from diverse perspectives. more

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Matt Taibbi is an American author known for his critical reporting on the financial industry. His work often exposes corruption and injustice within the financial sector and is widely recognized for his sharp commentary. more

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“This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.”

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“To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.”

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“What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.”

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“What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.”

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