Democracy Quotes by Jane Mayer

8 Democracy quotes by Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer’s eight short statements on democracy draw on her investigative journalism, delivering concise, thoughtful observations about power, accountability, and civic life.

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“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs.…

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“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate…

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The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

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“the university system of becoming a “niche for radicals,” describing the public funding as “a boondoggle,” and demanding that the legislature “starve…

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“In previous eras,” Lizza noted, “ideologically extreme minorities could be controlled by party leadership. What’s new about the current House of Representatives…

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“once the Republicans won control of North Carolina’s general assembly. In a matter of months, they enacted conservative policies that private think…

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“Obama accused the Republicans of giving “more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks to the wealthy” and argued that it was…

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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…

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“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under…

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“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and…

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“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…

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“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition…

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If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

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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'…

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“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,…

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“Amway in fact was structured to avoid federal taxes.”

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“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country…

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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…

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“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully…

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[The Kochs] they hate big government.

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“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…

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“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…

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“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent,…

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