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It's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense, — Matt Taibbi

More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost. — Matt Taibbi

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new. — 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. — Matt Taibbi

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues. — Matt Taibbi

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. — Matt Taibbi

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. — Matt Taibbi

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. — Matt Taibbi

As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner. — Matt Taibbi

How Giuliani is not Trump's running mate no one will ever understand. Theirs is the most passionate love story since Beavis and Butthead. — Matt Taibbi

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. — Matt Taibbi

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

Yes, let's build a wall, but let's do it to help African-Americans! It's alt-right meets Civil Rights! The best crossover hit since "Walk This Way"! — Matt Taibbi

More and more often, we all make silent calculations about who is entitled to what rights, and who is not. — Matt Taibbi

Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief. — Matt Taibbi

America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call. — Matt Taibbi

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. — Matt Taibbi

It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder. — Matt Taibbi

Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's - that's usually the way this business works. — Matt Taibbi

Get your liver ready: the second GOP debate is upon us S — Matt Taibbi

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

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. — Matt Taibbi

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

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. — Matt Taibbi

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer. — Matt Taibbi

TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That — Matt Taibbi

Intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When — Matt Taibbi

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi

Curiously, for instance, the drop in violent crime is most pronounced in cities with high immigrant populations. — Matt Taibbi

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. — Matt Taibbi

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. — Matt Taibbi

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

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic. — Matt Taibbi

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. — Matt Taibbi

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising. — Matt Taibbi

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump. — Matt Taibbi

Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame. — Matt Taibbi

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

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump A — Matt Taibbi

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. — Matt Taibbi

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate. — Matt Taibbi

Wall Street crime, in part, is a confidence game in which the criminal justice system itself is the mark. — Matt Taibbi

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. — Matt Taibbi

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. — Matt Taibbi

Lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say — Matt Taibbi

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value. — Matt Taibbi

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them. — Matt Taibbi

The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement. — Matt Taibbi

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. — Matt Taibbi

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

Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail. — 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. — Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. — Matt Taibbi

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers. — Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life. — Matt Taibbi

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together. — Matt Taibbi

Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops. — Matt Taibbi

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