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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements.
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.
Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.
Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
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.
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.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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.
The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.
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.
Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.
For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.