The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

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

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

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

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

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.