Big government Quote by Jane Mayer Download Open image “[The Kochs] they hate big government.” — Jane Mayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big government Bigs Government Hate Politics
They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they still want… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, put it, “The Kochs are on a whole different… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs'… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains that private… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty? — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job. — Scott Baio Copy Share Image
Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image