America Quote by Charles Lemert

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks…

— Richard Rodriguez

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

— Charlie Sykes

“If we want to see more progress on tactical policies, we should be focusing on the more strategic fight for our nation's values. If…

— David Akadjian

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

— Phil Bredesen

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

— Erwin Chargaff

“Making efforts was not exactly my forte. I always had great ideas, of course. I would have been perfect for a think tank. Think…

— Aaron Starmer

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and…

— David Frum

“The whole ideological assembly line that Richard Fink and Charles Koch had envisioned decades earlier, including the entire conservative media sphere, was enlisted in…

— Jane Mayer

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know.…

— Elizabeth Warren

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and…

— Juan Cole

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing…

— Khaled Hosseini

“If it were profitable to have indentured servants in the modern world, I'm sure that Richard Scaife's think tanks would have no trouble finding…

— Paul Krugman