Leadership Quote by David Brooks

“Urging Koch on in his chosen vocation was something else as well: his belief that his own growing financial success as one of the…

— Nancy MacLean

“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the popular vote,…

— Jane Mayer

“In 1992, David Koch likened the brothers’ multipronged political strategy to that of venture capitalists with diversified portfolios. “My overall concept is to minimize…

— Jane Mayer

“Fang soldiered on nonetheless, asking Koch what he wanted from the new Congress under Speaker Boehner. “Well,” Koch answered, with growing animation, licking his…

— Jane Mayer

“While those attracted to the Kochs’ meetings were uniformly conservative, they were not the predictable cartoon villains of conspiracy theories but spanned a wide…

— Jane Mayer

“What the Koch network needed to do, he said, was to persuade moderate, undecided voters that the “intent” of economic libertarians was virtuous.”

— Jane Mayer

“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.”

— John Charles Chasteen

It's a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model. It's just sad.

— Rush Limbaugh

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused…

— Alan Dershowitz

“the Koch brothers—owned virtually all of what had become under their leadership the second-largest private company in America. They owned four thousand miles of…

— Jane Mayer

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 Kochs’ extensive research had shown that what the American “customer” wanted from politics, alas, was quite different from their business-dominated free-market orthodoxy. It…

— Jane Mayer