Think tanks do have points of view, and they are…

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

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of…

— John Holdren

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's…

— Jane Mayer

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

— Nina Easton

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

— Bari Weiss

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

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In…

— Charles Lemert

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

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of…

— Jim Cooper

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

— Henry Giroux

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

There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.

— Gavin Esler