“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
This year [2016] we're seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the “secession” of the rich in which they “disconnect themselves from the civic life of the nation and from any concern about… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“By channeling donors’ money to largely overlooked state and local races, Republicans succeeded not only in advancing their political agenda but in… — 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
“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, DeVos defended the unlimited contributions. “Soft money,” she wrote, was just “hard-earned American dollars that Big… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Soft money,” she wrote, was just “hard-earned American dollars that Big Brother has yet to find a way to control. That is… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Bopp agreed. “We had a 10-year plan to take all this down,” he told the Times. “And if we do it right,… — 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
“only one law school, at the University of California in Los Angeles, turned the Olin funds away, arguing that by plying students… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The rich inevitably are going to organize their wealth to avoid government confiscation. They’ll do whatever the law allows to use their… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“You take corporate money and give it to a neutral-sounding think tank,” which “hires people with pedigrees and academic degrees who put… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“America was a “civil oligarchy” in which a tiny and extremely wealthy slice of the population was able to use its vastly… — 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
Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have. — 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
“After a series of campaign scandals involving secret donations from the newly rich industrial barons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The flood of money from Amway’s founders failed, though, to quash an investigation by the Canadian government into a tax-fraud scheme in… — 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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