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.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

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

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

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 was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

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.

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

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.

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself.

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

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

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.

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

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

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.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

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.

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

I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

The problem of the Muslim presence is increasingly worrying. There are more and more clashes, more and more demands. And I doubt the compatibility of Italian law with Muslim law, because it's not just a religion but a law.

The problem with Islam is that it's a law, not a religion, and it's incompatible with our values, our rights, and our freedoms.

I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

There's water on Mars, and there's life beyond Brussels.

I am and I will remain a populist, because those who listen to the people are doing their job, whereas the radical chic who disgust workers are no longer wanted by the people.

'Populism' is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.

Long live sausage! Long live salami! Long live pork, coppa, and pancetta!

French arrogance is no longer in fashion in Italy.

On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.

In my opinion, Islam is an outdated religion. It's not modern. And therefore, there's too much space for violence.

I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.

It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.

I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?

We need to increase deportations.

You can't die from going to the stadium to see a soccer match.

Leave the euro? Surely yes.

With nice words, we never obtained anything.

We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.