“from 2005 to 2008, a single source, the Kochs, poured almost $25 million into dozens of different organizations fighting climate reform.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“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.”… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Far from the Supreme Court majority’s assumption in the Citizens United case that political spending would be transparent, the Kochs and their… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The Kochs were also directing millions of dollars into online education, and into teaching high school students, through a nonprofit that Charles… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“in the eyes of critics, the Kochs had not so much enriched as corrupted academia, sponsoring courses that would otherwise fail to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“George Mason was the Kochs’ largest libertarian academic project but far from the only one. By 2015, according to an internal list,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In addition to the Kochs, this group included Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking and Gulf Oil fortunes; Harry… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“A consequence, however, was that the tax code turned many extraordinarily wealthy families, intent upon preserving their fortunes, into major forces in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Trump’s popularity suggested that voters were hungry for independent candidates who wouldn’t spout the donors’ lines. His call to close the carried-interest… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The Kochs never did play by the rules. They had their own playing field. They just didn’t abide by anything. Not the… — 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 Kochs presented themselves as champions of criminal justice reform, but while they were active in ALEC, it was instrumental in pushing… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“While those attracted to the Kochs’ meetings were uniformly conservative, they were not the predictable cartoon villains of conspiracy theories but spanned… — 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
“While amassing one of the most lucrative fortunes in the world, the Kochs had also created an ideological assembly line justifying it.… — 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
“The assumption soon proved wrong. Instead, as critics had warned, more and more of the money flooding into elections was spent by… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“To this end, the Kochs waged a long and remarkable battle of ideas. They subsidized networks of seemingly unconnected think tanks and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“it was the first time a major corporation used a tax-exempt nonprofit as a front group or, as he put it, “a… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In the view of the Kochs and other members of the Libertarian Party, government should be reduced to a skeletal function: the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Having embraced the Kochs’ free-market ideology and their right to spend unlimited money, the Republican Party was now ironically finding itself sidelined… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The Kochtopus is the nickname that people who've worked for the Kochs came up with because there's so many tentacles and it… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“One attractive solution for enormously wealthy families like the Scaifes and the Kochs was to donate to their own private philanthropic foundations.… — 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
“To “earn the respect and good feeling” of those whose support they needed, Fink went on to explain during his talk, the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the DeVos clan of Michigan. The family, whose members became stalwarts in the Kochs’ donor network, had made a multibillion-dollar fortune from… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Kochs’, declared, “The blue dress moment may have arrived.” But instead of using Monica Lewinsky’s telltale garment to impeach Bill Clinton,… — 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
![“[The Kochs] they hate big government.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/758/jane-mayer-1031_big-government_the-kochs-they-hate-big-government-21587_215871.jpg)
![“It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/361/jane-mayer-1031_america_it-s-quite-amazingly-radical-what-their_3200370.jpg)
![“The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a53/jane-mayer-1031_defeated_the-possibility-exists-that-the-kochs-wi_1503929.jpg)
![“There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b5/jane-mayer-1031_differences_there-s-a-difference-between-those-two-g_1943356.jpg)
![“There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e5/jane-mayer-1031_areas_there-are-some-areas-where-the-kochs-are_2611008.jpg)
![“People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed9/jane-mayer-1031_boycott_people-i-ve-interviewed-say-they-re-terr_3235213.jpg)
![“I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d5/jane-mayer-1031_arguing_i-would-argue-that-there-s-been-a-backla_1121264.jpg)
![“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)
![“[Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would be very happy with too. So it's not all bad for them.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be5/jane-mayer-1031_court_donald-trump-has-put-forward-a-list-of-p_1040060.jpg)
![“The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/641/jane-mayer-1031_country_the-great-unknown-in-this-country-is-whe_718453.jpg)
![“The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're pouring money into capturing the Senate and the House of Representatives, and state Houses across the country.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/369/jane-mayer-1031_ballots_the-kochs-are-very-much-involved-in-this_1367356.jpg)
![“They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/961/jane-mayer-1031_america_they-the-kochs-want-free-trade-and-cheap_1037770.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_libertarian_americans-for-prosperity-annoyed-some-of_21572.jpg)
![“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' favourite politicians.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dff/jane-mayer-1031_election_one-of-the-oddities-of-this-election-is_93991.jpg)
