Matt Taibbi Quotes

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

There’s a mal-distribution in wealth in this country. Entitlements end up going to the rich anyway. Some of them should be attacked. The ones who rip us off, the ones who get bailed out.

Since 2009, 95 percent of all gains in the economy went to the top 1 percent. That didn’t leave very much for the rest of us.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

The stock market is a playground for rich. The top 1 percent control 35 percent of stock wealth. As long as the stock market grows faster than the rest of the economy, the rich will keep getting richer

I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

We need to make sure that we're not in a society that is unbalanced and unfair and where the richest Americans are taking advantage of everybody else.

Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.

Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.