Matt Taibbi America Quotations

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

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.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

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

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

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

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

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.

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.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements.

At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.