“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In “Stealth,” his unpublished 2003 report on Charles’s political development, Coppin suggests that Charles harbored a hatred of the government so intense… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the university system of becoming a “niche for radicals,” describing the public funding as “a boondoggle,” and demanding that the legislature “starve… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organization is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised,” Charles wrote, arguing for… — 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
“Cato was devoted to espousing Charles Koch’s vision: that government’s only legitimate role was to “serve as a night watchman, to protect… — 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
“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself… — 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
“The Kochs’ extensive research had shown that what the American “customer” wanted from politics, alas, was quite different from their business-dominated free-market… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“These guys, individually and collectively, created a new philanthropic form, which was movement philanthropy,” said Rob Stein, a progressive political strategist, speaking… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“While these tax cuts starved the government, George Mason also belittled its role philosophically. A star on its faculty was James Buchanan,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“What Obama was up against was a new form of permanent campaign. It was waged not by politicians but by people whose… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the next year, the company released a terse statement announcing that it had pleaded guilty to defrauding the Canadian government and would… — 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
“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
“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
“Fred Koch’s political views were apparently shaped by his traumatic exposure to the Soviet Union. Over time, Stalin brutally purged several of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Liberal critics, like the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, worried that the country was in danger of… — 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
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked… — 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
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
“In 1992, David Koch likened the brothers’ multipronged political strategy to that of venture capitalists with diversified portfolios. “My overall concept is… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S.… — 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
“Today, they are commonplace, and rarely controversial, but Americans across the political spectrum once regarded the whole idea of private foundations with… — 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
“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
“They challenged the widely accepted post–World War II consensus that an activist government was a force for public good. Instead, they argued… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The real enemies, he suggested, were “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences,”… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“On top of these programs, the foundation doled out $8 million to more than a hundred John M. Olin faculty fellows. These… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Private and corporate foundations, he said, must cease “the mindless subsidizing of colleges and universities whose departments of politics, economics and history… — 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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![“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)
![“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)
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