“The Olin Corporation’s pollution was so extensive and intractable that the company faced the prospect of tens if not hundreds of millions… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“They're building a party from outside to take over the party - they're doing it by market segments - it's like a… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Amway was much more than a simple direct-marketing firm. It was an organization devoted with missionary zeal to the very idea of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As Obama took office, America derived over 85 percent of its total energy from oil, gas, and coal. The business was enormous,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In response to the rising concerns in Saltville, in 1970 Virginia passed strict new standards that the company said it couldn’t meet.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Fang soldiered on nonetheless, asking Koch what he wanted from the new Congress under Speaker Boehner. “Well,” Koch answered, with growing animation,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the next year, the company released a terse statement announcing that it had pleaded guilty to defrauding the Canadian government and would… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“They made political contributions to party committees and candidates, such as Dole. Their business made contributions through its political action committee and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the government alleged that the company was little more than a pyramid scheme built upon misleading promises of riches to prospective distributors,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Yet the story line blaming environmental activists for its problems proved irresistible. Life magazine produced an elegiac photo essay called “End of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“after Citizens United was that the business of manipulating politics from the ground up was now heavily directed and funded by the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The company’s political activism was so unusually intense that one FTC attorney at the time told Forbes, “They’re not a business, but… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“One former insider in the Kochs’ realm, who declined to be named because he feared retribution, described the early donor summits as… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When World War II began, the high-octane fuel was used in bombing raids by German pilots. Like Davis, the Koch family benefited… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Koch brothers—owned virtually all of what had become under their leadership the second-largest private company in America. They owned four thousand… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs'… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
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![“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and Republican Parties.” Protestant churches, public schools, universities, labor unions, the armed services, the State Department, the World Bank, the…” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.jpg)
![“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts on them, then took pictures and sent them to Charles [Koch] saying, ‘See? We’re doing great things with your money.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08d/jane-mayer-1031_tea_americans-for-prosperity-annoyed-some-of_21572.jpg)
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