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title: "49 Charles Quotes By Jane Mayer"
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> [“Charles’s aim, he said, was to tear the government out “at the root.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/charles-s-aim-he-said-was-to-tear-the-government-out-at-the-root/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“from 2005 to 2008, a single source, the Kochs, poured almost $25 million into dozens of different organizations fighting climate reform.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/from-2005-to-2008-a-single-source-the-kochs-poured-almost-25-million/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/it-s-hard-for-them-to-run-away-from-their-record-the-kochs-are/)

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> [“In 1992, David Koch likened the brothers’ multipronged political strategy to that of venture capitalists with diversified portfolios. “My overall concept is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-1992-david-koch-likened-the-brothers-multipronged-political/)

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> [“The next morning, readers of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal opened their papers to see a full-page ad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-next-morning-readers-of-the-new-york-times-and-the-wall-street/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“1958, Fred Koch became one of eleven original members of the John Birch Society, the archconservative group best known for spreading far-fetched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/1958-fred-koch-became-one-of-eleven-original-members-of-the-john/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/david-and-charles-koch-are-pretty-much-as-far-right-as-you-can-get-on/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/so-you-ve-got-these-regular-middle-class-voters-who-don-t-hate-the/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [ I would argue that there's been a backlash this year \[2016\]. They \[the Kochs\] pushed the \[Republican\] party too far right. The… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/i-would-argue-that-there-s-been-a-backlash-this-year-2016-they-the/)

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> [“Far from the Supreme Court majority’s assumption in the Citizens United case that political spending would be transparent, the Kochs and their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/far-from-the-supreme-court-majority-s-assumption-in-the-citizens/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“it’s a major accomplishment for sponsors like the Kochs that they’ve turned corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/it-s-a-major-accomplishment-for-sponsors-like-the-kochs-that-they-ve/)

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> [“George Mason was the Kochs’ largest libertarian academic project but far from the only one. By 2015, according to an internal list,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/george-mason-was-the-kochs-largest-libertarian-academic-project-but/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“On top of these programs, the foundation doled out $8 million to more than a hundred John M. Olin faculty fellows. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/on-top-of-these-programs-the-foundation-doled-out-8-million-to-more/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“In addition to the Kochs, this group included Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking and Gulf Oil fortunes; Harry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-addition-to-the-kochs-this-group-included-richard-mellon-scaife-an/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“in 2005, the Olin Foundation had supported eleven separate programs at Harvard, burnishing the foundation’s name and ideas and proving that even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-2005-the-olin-foundation-had-supported-eleven-separate-programs-at/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“One was the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group aimed at waging conservative fights in every state legislature in the country.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/one-was-the-american-legislative-exchange-council-alec-a-group-aimed/)

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> [“In 1976, with a contribution of some $65,000 from Charles Koch, the Center for Libertarian Studies in New York City was launched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-1976-with-a-contribution-of-some-65-000-from-charles-koch-the/)

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> [“the John M. Olin Foundation in 1953, Olin embarked on a radical new course. He began to fund an ambitious offensive to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-john-m-olin-foundation-in-1953-olin-embarked-on-a-radical-new/)

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> [“David Koch’s 1980 campaign served as a bridge between LeFevre’s radical pedagogy and the Tea Party movement. Indeed the Libertarian Party’s standard-bearer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/david-koch-s-1980-campaign-served-as-a-bridge-between-lefevre-s/)

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> [“the Koch brothers—owned virtually all of what had become under their leadership the second-largest private company in America. They owned four thousand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-koch-brothers-owned-virtually-all-of-what-had-become-under-their/)

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> [“One former insider in the Kochs’ realm, who declined to be named because he feared retribution, described the early donor summits as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/one-former-insider-in-the-kochs-realm-who-declined-to-be-named/)

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> [“The assumption soon proved wrong. Instead, as critics had warned, more and more of the money flooding into elections was spent by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-assumption-soon-proved-wrong-instead-as-critics-had-warned-more/)

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> [“To this end, the Kochs waged a long and remarkable battle of ideas. They subsidized networks of seemingly unconnected think tanks and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/to-this-end-the-kochs-waged-a-long-and-remarkable-battle-of-ideas/)

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> [“While amassing one of the most lucrative fortunes in the world, the Kochs had also created an ideological assembly line justifying it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/while-amassing-one-of-the-most-lucrative-fortunes-in-the-world-the/)

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> [“The Kochs were also directing millions of dollars into online education, and into teaching high school students, through a nonprofit that Charles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-were-also-directing-millions-of-dollars-into-online/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“It would be necessary to use ambiguous and misleading names, obscure the true agenda, and conceal the means of control. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/it-would-be-necessary-to-use-ambiguous-and-misleading-names-obscure/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“it was the first time a major corporation used a tax-exempt nonprofit as a front group or, as he put it, “a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/it-was-the-first-time-a-major-corporation-used-a-tax-exempt-nonprofit/)

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> [“Afterward, the Constitutional Accountability Center, a watchdog group, revealed that the judges in the majority had previously attended one of the all-expenses-paid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/afterward-the-constitutional-accountability-center-a-watchdog-group/)

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> [“the Olin Foundation provided crucial start-up funds for the Federalist Society, a powerful organization for conservative law students founded in 1982.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-olin-foundation-provided-crucial-start-up-funds-for-the/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“What the Koch network needed to do, he said, was to persuade moderate, undecided voters that the “intent” of economic libertarians was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/what-the-koch-network-needed-to-do-he-said-was-to-persuade-moderate/)

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> [“On Election Day, to the surprise of Romney and his backers, Democratic voters turned out in far bigger numbers than the Republicans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/on-election-day-to-the-surprise-of-romney-and-his-backers-democratic/)

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> [“To “earn the respect and good feeling” of those whose support they needed, Fink went on to explain during his talk, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/to-earn-the-respect-and-good-feeling-of-those-whose-support-they/)

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> [ They \[the Kochs\] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/they-the-kochs-want-free-trade-and-cheap-labour-they-own-the-second/)

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> [“One attractive solution for enormously wealthy families like the Scaifes and the Kochs was to donate to their own private philanthropic foundations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/one-attractive-solution-for-enormously-wealthy-families-like-the/)

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> [“the DeVos clan of Michigan. The family, whose members became stalwarts in the Kochs’ donor network, had made a multibillion-dollar fortune from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-devos-clan-of-michigan-the-family-whose-members-became-stalwarts/)

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> [“Olin Foundation made a key $25,000 investment of its own in an unknown writer named Charles Murray, funding a grant at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/olin-foundation-made-a-key-25-000-investment-of-its-own-in-an-unknown/)

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> [“At West Virginia University, the Charles Koch Foundation’s donation of $965,000 to create the Center for Free Enterprise came with some strings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/at-west-virginia-university-the-charles-koch-foundation-s-donation-of/)

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> [“They made political contributions to party committees and candidates, such as Dole. Their business made contributions through its political action committee and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/they-made-political-contributions-to-party-committees-and-candidates/)

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> [“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-were-not-alone-as-they-sought-ways-to-steer-american/)

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> [“While those attracted to the Kochs’ meetings were uniformly conservative, they were not the predictable cartoon villains of conspiracy theories but spanned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/while-those-attracted-to-the-kochs-meetings-were-uniformly/)

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## Other authors on Charles

## More by Jane Mayer

> [“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/david-brock-a-conservative-apostate-who-became-a-liberal-activist/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-early-think-tank-was-not-a-spy-operation-but-it-was-funded-by/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/americans-for-prosperity-annoyed-some-of-the-tea-partiers-recalls-the/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/when-barack-obama-took-office-the-fossil-fuel-industry-was-not-only/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/if-you-have-an-informed-electorate-it-makes-great-choices/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [ 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'… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/one-of-the-oddities-of-this-election-is-the-man-that-donald-trump/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-candidates-promised-to-cut-taxes-for-those-in-the-highest/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“Amway in fact was structured to avoid federal taxes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/amway-in-fact-was-structured-to-avoid-federal-taxes/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/radicals-in-congress-refused-to-back-down-bringing-virtually-the/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/what-i-write-about-is-how-much-influence-it-s-had-in-things-like/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/two-months-into-their-tenure-republicans-on-the-house-energy-and/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [ \[The Kochs\] they hate big government. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-they-hate-big-government/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains that private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/rob-reich-a-professor-of-political-science-at-stanford-university-and/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S. government’s regulatory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/during-the-previous-eight-years-of-republican-rule-this-conservative/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

> [“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/noble-again-chose-larry-mccarthy-the-veteran-media-consultant-who-was/)

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