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title: "40 Politics Quotes By Jane Mayer"
description: "Jane Mayer’s political quotes expose anti‑government attitudes among wealthy elites and calls for minimal state power."
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> [“Charles’s aim, he said, was to tear the government out “at the root.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/charles-s-aim-he-said-was-to-tear-the-government-out-at-the-root/)

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> [ \[The Kochs\] they hate big government. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-they-hate-big-government/)

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> [“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/he-was-driven-by-some-deeper-urge-to-smash-the-one-thing-left-in-the/)

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> [“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/merged-all-forms-of-political-spending-campaign-lobbying-and/)

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> [“In 1992, David Koch likened the brothers’ multipronged political strategy to that of venture capitalists with diversified portfolios. “My overall concept is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-1992-david-koch-likened-the-brothers-multipronged-political/)

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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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> [“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/during-the-previous-eight-years-of-republican-rule-this-conservative/)

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> [“Private and corporate foundations, he said, must cease “the mindless subsidizing of colleges and universities whose departments of politics, economics and history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/private-and-corporate-foundations-he-said-must-cease-the-mindless/)

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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/)

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> [“Libertarianism is supposed to be all about principles, but what it's really about is political expedience. It's basically a corporate front, masked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/libertarianism-is-supposed-to-be-all-about-principles-but-what-it-s/)

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> [“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/rob-reich-a-professor-of-political-science-at-stanford-university-and/)

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> [“The real enemies, he suggested, were “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-real-enemies-he-suggested-were-the-college-campus-the-pulpit-the/)

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> [“On top of these programs, the foundation doled out $8 million to more than a hundred John M. Olin faculty fellows. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/on-top-of-these-programs-the-foundation-doled-out-8-million-to-more/)

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> [“after Citizens United was that the business of manipulating politics from the ground up was now heavily directed and funded by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/after-citizens-united-was-that-the-business-of-manipulating-politics/)

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> [“They challenged the widely accepted post–World War II consensus that an activist government was a force for public good. Instead, they argued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/they-challenged-the-widely-accepted-post-world-war-ii-consensus-that/)

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> [“the government alleged that the company was little more than a pyramid scheme built upon misleading promises of riches to prospective distributors,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-government-alleged-that-the-company-was-little-more-than-a/)

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> [“Today, they are commonplace, and rarely controversial, but Americans across the political spectrum once regarded the whole idea of private foundations with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/today-they-are-commonplace-and-rarely-controversial-but-americans/)

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> [“What Obama was up against was a new form of permanent campaign. It was waged not by politicians but by people whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/what-obama-was-up-against-was-a-new-form-of-permanent-campaign-it-was/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/radicals-in-congress-refused-to-back-down-bringing-virtually-the/)

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> [“The flood of money from Amway’s founders failed, though, to quash an investigation by the Canadian government into a tax-fraud scheme in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-flood-of-money-from-amway-s-founders-failed-though-to-quash-an/)

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> [“Liberal critics, like the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, worried that the country was in danger of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/liberal-critics-like-the-new-york-times-columnist-paul-krugman-a/)

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> [“Fred Koch’s political views were apparently shaped by his traumatic exposure to the Soviet Union. Over time, Stalin brutally purged several of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/fred-koch-s-political-views-were-apparently-shaped-by-his-traumatic/)

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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/)

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> [“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/thomas-piketty-an-economist-at-the-paris-school-of-economics-warned/)

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> [“Cato was devoted to espousing Charles Koch’s vision: that government’s only legitimate role was to “serve as a night watchman, to protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/cato-was-devoted-to-espousing-charles-koch-s-vision-that-government-s/)

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> [“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/while-american-democracy-is-imperfect-few-outside-the-majority-of/)

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> [“The rich inevitably are going to organize their wealth to avoid government confiscation. They’ll do whatever the law allows to use their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-rich-inevitably-are-going-to-organize-their-wealth-to-avoid/)

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> [ “\[David\] Maraniss sees \[Barack\] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/david-maraniss-sees-barack-obama-as-a-man-with-a-moviegoer-s-or/)

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> [“In order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organization is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised,” Charles wrote, arguing for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-order-to-avoid-undesirable-criticism-how-the-organization-is/)

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> [“the university system of becoming a “niche for radicals,” describing the public funding as “a boondoggle,” and demanding that the legislature “starve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-university-system-of-becoming-a-niche-for-radicals-describing-the/)

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> [“In “Stealth,” his unpublished 2003 report on Charles’s political development, Coppin suggests that Charles harbored a hatred of the government so intense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/in-stealth-his-unpublished-2003-report-on-charles-s-political/)

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> [“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-bush-energy-act-contained-some-6-billion-in-oil-and-gas-subsidies/)

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> [“While these tax cuts starved the government, George Mason also belittled its role philosophically. A star on its faculty was James Buchanan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/while-these-tax-cuts-starved-the-government-george-mason-also/)

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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 next year, the company released a terse statement announcing that it had pleaded guilty to defrauding the Canadian government and would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-next-year-the-company-released-a-terse-statement-announcing-that/)

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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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> [“These guys, individually and collectively, created a new philanthropic form, which was movement philanthropy,” said Rob Stein, a progressive political strategist, speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/these-guys-individually-and-collectively-created-a-new-philanthropic/)

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> [“The Kochs’ extensive research had shown that what the American “customer” wanted from politics, alas, was quite different from their business-dominated free-market…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/the-kochs-extensive-research-had-shown-that-what-the-american/)

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> [“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/)

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> [ 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/)

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> [“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/)

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

> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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