Conspiracy theories Quote by 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

“Radicals: A Koch Family History Oddly enough, the fiercely libertarian Koch family owed part of its fortune to two of history’s most infamous dictators,…

— Jane Mayer

“Fred Koch’s political views were apparently shaped by his traumatic exposure to the Soviet Union. Over time, Stalin brutally purged several of Koch’s Soviet…

— Jane Mayer

“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 1976, with a contribution of some $65,000 from Charles Koch, the Center for Libertarian Studies in New York City was launched and soon…

— Jane Mayer

The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.

— Robert Dallek

“To this end, the Kochs waged a long and remarkable battle of ideas. They subsidized networks of seemingly unconnected think tanks and academic programs…

— Jane Mayer

“One former insider in the Kochs’ realm, who declined to be named because he feared retribution, described the early donor summits as a clever…

— Jane Mayer

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 Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe…

— Bernie Sanders

From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting…

— Sheldon Whitehouse