The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of… — 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
“Very rich benefactors in the Republican Party were far more opposed to taxes and regulations than the rest of the country. “The… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In a Senate debate on proposed campaign-finance restrictions, McConnell reportedly told colleagues, “If we stop this thing, we can control the institution… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“There’s not a Republican president or presidential candidate in the last fifty years who hasn’t known the DeVoses,” Saul Anuzis, a former… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Then, in a stunning turnaround in 2008, Scaife met with Hillary Clinton, who had fingered him as the ringleader of what she… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the gerrymandering of 2010 had created what Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker called a “historical oddity.” Political extremists now had no… — 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
[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
“Another early sign that the investment was yielding real results on the national scale was the Republican wave that swept the 1978… — 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
“Mike Lofgren, a Republican who spent thirty years observing how wealthy interests gamed the policy-making apparatus in Washington, where he was a… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“What happened? We had bad data,” a Koch insider conceded after it was over. They had counted on an electorate less diverse… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In previous eras,” Lizza noted, “ideologically extreme minorities could be controlled by party leadership. What’s new about the current House of Representatives… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The often-told tale was that the remarkable awakening of antigovernment rage that spread across the country in 2009 was triggered by an… — 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… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Obama nonetheless continued to seek bipartisan support. His experience with what Hillary Clinton labeled the “vast right-wing conspiracy” was limited. He had… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In Kansas, where Triad Management was especially active, the funds were suspected of having tipped the outcome in four close races. The… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Scaife rationalized his foundations’ funding of an obsessive investigation of President Clinton’s marital infidelities during the 1990s that came to be known… — 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
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Scaife even insisted in an interview that Clinton “can order people done away with at will…God there must be 60 people [associated… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would… — 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… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Rather than compromising their principles and working with the new administration, DeMint argued, Republicans needed to take a firm stand against Obama,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“They turned on Obama so early,” he later recalled ruefully. “Not only did we not have the answers yet, we barely knew… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
So in a strange way, even though Trump is a billionaire, what he's been saying is, "Everything's rigged, it's all corrupt and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“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… — 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 advent of computers had turned redistricting into an expensive, cynical, and highly precise science. Hofeller, the foremost practitioner on the Republican… — 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
“Bill Clinton, a “New Democrat,” later embraced his ideas, calling Murray’s analysis “essentially right” and incorporating many of his prescriptions, including work… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“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… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
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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 the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/jane-mayer-1031_country_the-great-unknown-in-this-country-is-whe_718453.png)
![“There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/jane-mayer-1031_areas_there-are-some-areas-where-the-kochs-are_2611008.png)
![“It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45b/jane-mayer-1031_donald-trump_it-s-hard-to-look-at-donald-trump-as-a-h_1896528.png)
![“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/i/369/jane-mayer-1031_ballots_the-kochs-are-very-much-involved-in-this_1367356.png)
![“[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/i/f40/jane-mayer-1031_different_donald-trump-comes-along-and-is-singing_1903123.png)
![“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/jane-mayer-1031_barack-obama_david-maraniss-sees-barack-obama-as-a-ma_991108.jpg)
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![“Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/jane-mayer-1031_big-government_donald-trump-actually-is-a-pretty-big-go_2460078.png)
![“[Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would be very happy with too. So it's not all bad for them.” quote by Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be5/jane-mayer-1031_court_donald-trump-has-put-forward-a-list-of-p_1040060.png)
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