Top 120 Matt Taibbi Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.”

— Matt Taibbi

102. “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

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

— Matt Taibbi

104. “In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.”

— Matt Taibbi

105. “In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market – the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they’d be looking for jobs again.”

— Matt Taibbi

106. “For what it’s worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.”

— Matt Taibbi

107. “There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality.”

— Matt Taibbi

108. “The human brain just isn’t designed to take in a whole world’s worth of disturbing news. Most of us have enough trouble with the more mundane problems of finding inner peace and securing happiness for our loved ones.”

— Matt Taibbi

109. “Get your liver ready: the second GOP debate is upon us S.”

— Matt Taibbi

110. “In the modern Republican Party, making sense is a secondary consideration. Years of relentless propaganda combined with extreme frustration over the disastrous Bush years and two terms of a Kenyan Muslim terrorist president have cast the party’s right wing into a swirling suckhole of paranoia and conspiratorial craziness. There is nothing you can do to go too far, a fact proved, if not exactly understood, by the madman, Trump. Huckabee.”

— Matt Taibbi

111. “We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we’re building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.”

— Matt Taibbi

112. “The final insult to all of this is that when Trump secured the nomination, media companies looked down at their bottom lines and realized that, via the profits they made during his run – Trump is “good for business,” CBS president Les Moonves infamously confessed – they had been made accomplices to the whole affair. –.”

— Matt Taibbi

113. “The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.”

— Matt Taibbi

114. “Justice by Attrition turns courthouses like this giant complex on Schermerhorn Street into huge fun houses of unreasonableness and mindless punishment, where you can peek into just about any room and find someone absolutely beside himself with disbelief over what is happening to him.”

— Matt Taibbi

115. “Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.”

— Matt Taibbi

116. “So long as we remain a bitterly divided two-party state, we’ll never want for TV villains.”

— Matt Taibbi

117. “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.”

— Matt Taibbi

118. “People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we’ve become numb to the idea that rights aren’t absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.”

— Matt Taibbi

119. “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

120. “Who we hate just depends on what channel we watch.”

— Matt Taibbi

121. “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.”

— Matt Taibbi

122. “America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.”

— Matt Taibbi

123. “It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.”

— Matt Taibbi

124. “The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they won’t rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those measles-infected rapists pouring over the border. Not.”

— Matt Taibbi

125. “Trump has blown up even the backroom version of the issues-driven campaign. There are no secret donors that we know of. Trump himself appears to be the largest financial backer of the Trump campaign. A financial report disclosed that Trump lent his own campaign $1.8 million while raising just $100,000. There.”

— Matt Taibbi

126. “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

127. “As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.”

— Matt Taibbi

128. “The London-based Reprieve organization found that 1,147 people were killed by drones in efforts to kill just forty-one men.”

— Matt Taibbi

129. “Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame.”

— Matt Taibbi

130. “Sanders is a clear outlier in a generation that has forgotten what it means to be a public servant. The Times remarks upon his “grumpy demeanor.” But Bernie is grumpy because he’s thinking about vets who need surgeries, guest workers who’ve had their wages ripped off, kids without access to dentists or some other godforsaken problem that most of us normal people can care about for maybe a few minutes on a good day, but Bernie worries about more or less all the time.”

— Matt Taibbi