Jane Mayer Quotes - Page 2

• Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

  Jane Mayer

  Important, Campaigns, Campaign Finance

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Kochtopus is the nickname that people who've worked for the Kochs came up with because there's so many tentacles and it likes the shadows. I really feel the first step is to provide the information.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Shadow, Nicknames

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

  Jane Mayer

  Past, Reform, Reason Why

  "The real threat in the U.S. election". Interview with Jason Markusoff, www.macleans.ca. September 15, 2016.

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• Lo que me preocupa es que, a medida que la riqueza sigue concentrándose en manos de unos pocos, la desigualdad económica crece, y el poder también se hace más desigual.

  Jane Mayer

  Hands, Economic Inequality, Wealth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Believe, Agency

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, White, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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' favourite politicians.

  Jane Mayer

  Men, Oddities, President

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ellos [los Koch] quieren libre comercio y mano de obra barata. Poseen la segunda empresa privada más grande de Estados Unidos, que es una enorme multinacional. Así que están en otra onda.

  Jane Mayer

  America, Different, Wavelength

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• El dinero tiene mucho más poder en las urnas.

  Jane Mayer

  Papeletas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

  Jane Mayer

  Office, Individual, Bigs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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 even more important in the long run is that very extreme money has affected the ecosystem of ideology in the country.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Country, Writing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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 really where the impact is that people don't see.

  Jane Mayer

  Thinking, Impact, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• This year [2016] we're seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were really on the far, hard right, people like the Kochs. So the party and the candidates moved so far to the right that a lot of people who don't share their point of view were unhappy.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Views, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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 government programs. They want Social Security, they want Medicare. They need it.

  Jane Mayer

  Hate, Government, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Song, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

  Jane Mayer

  Country, Party, Election

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Los Koch están muy implicados en estas elecciones, no apoyando a [Donald] Trump, sino respaldando todo lo que está por debajo de él. Están invirtiendo dinero en el Senado y la Cámara de Representantes, y en las cámaras estatales de todo el país.

  Jane Mayer

  Country, House, Pouring

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the backlash is against is the sense that politicians have been bought and sold.

  Jane Mayer

  Party, Years, Arguing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• So in a strange way, even though Trump is a billionaire, what he's been saying is, "Everything's rigged, it's all corrupt and I'm not corrupt because I'm my own billionaire." Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie Sanders made a lot of hay by making that argument.

  Jane Mayer

  Hay, Way, Strange

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [The Kochs] they hate big government.

  Jane Mayer

  Hate, Government, Bigs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

  Jane Mayer

  Eye, Government, Conservative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

  Jane Mayer

  America, Vision, Would Be

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• The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.

  Jane Mayer

  Book, Dark, Government

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.

  Jane Mayer

  Pensamiento, Dos, Diferencias

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

  Jane Mayer

  Climate, Action, Spending

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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