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title: "45 Kochs Quotes By Jane Mayer"
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> [ \[The Kochs\] 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/)

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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/)

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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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> [ It's quite amazingly radical, what their \[the Kochs\] vision of America would be. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/it-s-quite-amazingly-radical-what-their-the-kochs-vision-of-america/)

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> [ The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if \[Donalds\] Trump's defeated. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-possibility-exists-that-the-kochs-will-walk-away-with-even-more/)

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> [ There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with \[Donald\] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/there-are-some-areas-where-the-kochs-are-on-the-same-page-with-donald/)

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> [ There's a difference between those two \[George Soroses and the Tom Steyers\] and the Kochs that I think is important. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/there-s-a-difference-between-those-two-george-soroses-and-the-tom/)

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> [ People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their \[the Kochs\] products, which include so many household items that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/people-i-ve-interviewed-say-they-re-terrified-there-may-be-boycotts/)

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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/)

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> [I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/i-think-the-scary-thing-is-that-there-is-in-place-already-a-sprawling/)

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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/)

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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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> [“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/)

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> [“in the eyes of critics, the Kochs had not so much enriched as corrupted academia, sponsoring courses that would otherwise fail to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-the-eyes-of-critics-the-kochs-had-not-so-much-enriched-as/)

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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/)

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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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> [“A consequence, however, was that the tax code turned many extraordinarily wealthy families, intent upon preserving their fortunes, into major forces in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/a-consequence-however-was-that-the-tax-code-turned-many/)

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

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/trump-s-popularity-suggested-that-voters-were-hungry-for-independent/)

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> [“The Kochs never did play by the rules. They had their own playing field. They just didn’t abide by anything. Not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-never-did-play-by-the-rules-they-had-their-own-playing/)

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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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> [ “a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat \[sic\] and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-business-man-looks-at-communism/)

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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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> [“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/)

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

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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/)

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

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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/)

[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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> [“In the view of the Kochs and other members of the Libertarian Party, government should be reduced to a skeletal function: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-the-view-of-the-kochs-and-other-members-of-the-libertarian-party/)

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

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> [ \[Donald\] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/donald-trump-has-put-forward-a-list-of-people-he-would-like-to-see-on/)

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> [“Having embraced the Kochs’ free-market ideology and their right to spend unlimited money, the Republican Party was now ironically finding itself sidelined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/having-embraced-the-kochs-free-market-ideology-and-their-right-to/)

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> [ The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing \[Donald\] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-are-very-much-involved-in-this-election-not-backing-donald/)

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> [The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-great-unknown-in-this-country-is-where-this-leaves-the-republican/)

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> [The Kochtopus is the nickname that people who've worked for the Kochs came up with because there's so many tentacles and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochtopus-is-the-nickname-that-people-who-ve-worked-for-the-kochs/)

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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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> [“the Kochs’, declared, “The blue dress moment may have arrived.” But instead of using Monica Lewinsky’s telltale garment to impeach Bill Clinton,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-declared-the-blue-dress-moment-may-have-arrived-but-instead/)

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## 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/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-early-think-tank-was-not-a-spy-operation-but-it-was-funded-by/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/when-barack-obama-took-office-the-fossil-fuel-industry-was-not-only/)

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> [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/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/two-months-into-their-tenure-republicans-on-the-house-energy-and/)

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> [ \[The Kochs\] 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/)

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

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