The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have. — 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
Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important. — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Obama won, but he had few illusions that he had vanquished big money. “I’m an incumbent president who already had this huge… — 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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
[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
“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
“what it is: an oligarchy,” declared McKinnon. “The system is controlled by a handful of ultra-wealthy people, most of whom got rich… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“money. Rather than simply directing the funds through the maze of secretive nonprofit charities and social welfare groups that they had used… — 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
![“[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15e/jane-mayer-1031_action_tom-steyer-is-specifically-spending-mone_628060.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)
![“This year [2016] we're seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were really on the far, hard right, people like the Kochs. So the party and the candidates moved so far to the right that a lot of people who don't share their point of…” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d15/jane-mayer-1031_candidates_this-year-2016-we-re-seeing-a-really-str_280929.jpg)
![“Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in…” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/76a/jane-mayer-1031_barack_barack-obama-was-elected-president-in-20_1055706.jpg)
![“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f40/jane-mayer-1031_different_donald-trump-comes-along-and-is-singing_1903123.jpg)
![“I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you know, Pepto Bismol or something. I wanted it to read a little bit like a thriller, so that it truly grabbed people.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb6/jane-mayer-1031_bits_i-kept-thinking-maybe-in-the-future-edit_2591460.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_tea_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)
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