American - Author | March 2, 1970 -
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
Matt Taibbi
WarIdentityColdEndAmericaRight
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
GamblingProfitFancyOwnMarket
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.
BusinessEnergyWallStreetOilUp
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.
JobManPeopleStandHonorYou
John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.
ManBlueAmericanPoliticalSurvival
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.
JusticeWorldColleaguesYearParty
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.
MarriageViewChristianPoint Of View
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.
HeartDeepDownWayMoreScary
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
AmericaTwoNationalOfficial
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.
AmericaDoingCompanyStealingGet
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
PoliticsCrazyChanceAmericanYou
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Matt Taibbi quotes