Conspiracy theories Quote by 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

“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

“Having embraced the Kochs’ free-market ideology and their right to spend unlimited money, the Republican Party was now ironically finding itself sidelined and perhaps…

— Jane Mayer

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

“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

“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 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

“To “earn the respect and good feeling” of those whose support they needed, Fink went on to explain during his talk, the Kochs would…

— 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

“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

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

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

— John Charles Chasteen