Billions Quote by Bernie Sanders

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions…

— Bob Beckel

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly,…

— Bill Moyers

Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that…

— Bernie Sanders

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very…

— Mike Pompeo

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions,…

— Ralph Nader

The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and…

— Jane Mayer

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…

— Jane Mayer

In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say…

— Bernie Sanders

The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so…

— Mark Shields

The Koch brothers tend to give to right-leaning and libertarian causes. Koch money was instrumental, for example, in founding the Cato Institute and the…

— Donald Luskin

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The…

— Bernie Sanders

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

— Jane Mayer