Home / Quotes / Quote by Matt Taibbi

Quote by Matt Taibbi

“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.”

Quote by Matt Taibbi

Author

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

You May Also Like

“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.”

Running Energy Company Millions Streets Wall Dollars Oil Firm Corporations Gas Stations Assets Profitable Pipeline Gas Stations Rigs

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.”

Lasts Purpose Bits Class Economy Streets Middle Wall Meat Giants Middle Class Assets Schemes Stripping

Author:Matt Taibbi

“When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.”

Men God Motivational Success Willing Willpower

Author:Aeschylus

“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.”

Kind Bigs Magic Security Lows Math Income Dust Bubbles Mortgage Rating Bundles Low Income Pixies Borrowers Slapping Goldman Sachs Pixie Dust

Author:Matt Taibbi

“What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.”

Sides President Effort Millions Crazy Picks Hatred Dollars Cynical Unnecessary Both Sides Abusive Hatred And Anger

Author:Matt Taibbi

“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.”

Whole Interest Situation Politician Office Various Favors Campaigns Bunch Contribution Contracts Campaign Contributions

Author:Matt Taibbi

“You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Next Individual Crime Fine Criminals Corporate Pockets Jail Do You Know Penalties Next Time Think Twice Kitties Deterrent Committing Crimes

Author:Matt Taibbi

“You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.”

Knows Stills States Happens Used Night Stuff United United States Military Type Weapons Russia Opening Selling Officers Truck Civil Society Opening Up Warehouse

Author:Matt Taibbi

“You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.”

Giving Years Games Winning Modern Politician Financial Hearing Stealing Regulation Attending Filing Financial Regulation

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.”

Would Be Remember Normal Gun Machines Landscape Camps Towers Wire Abnormal Normality Machine Guns Barbed Wire Normal And Abnormal

Author:George Takei