Nevertheless Quote by Juan Cole

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

— Bari Weiss

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

— Charlie Sykes

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

“National Policy Institute, which is sometimes described as a “white supremacist think tank,”

— Michael Wolff

“The whole ideological assembly line that Richard Fink and Charles Koch had envisioned decades earlier, including the entire conservative media sphere, was enlisted in…

— Jane Mayer

I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a…

— Chris Murphy

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

— Henry Giroux

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left…

— Dan Aykroyd

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

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

— Bashar al-Assad

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to…

— Anonymous

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

— Kathy Acker