Latest Jane Mayer Quotes from Interviews

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• We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama.

  Jane Mayer

  President, Donors, Being Accused

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated.

  Jane Mayer

  Defeated, Possibility, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and candidates and politicians funded by the Kochs and other deep-pocketed groups on the far right ready to attack Hillary Clinton.

  Jane Mayer

  Thinking, Scary, Tanks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Paper Towels, Dixie

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.

  Jane Mayer

  Offering, Hopeful, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Records, Businessman

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

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

  Jane Mayer

  America, Vision, Would Be

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

  Jane Mayer

  Hands, Economic Inequality, Wealth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

  Jane Mayer

  Moving, Democracy, Oligarchy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

  Jane Mayer

  Choices, Electorate, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

• 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

• I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you know, Pepto Bismol or something. I wanted it to read a little bit like a thriller, so that it truly grabbed people.

  Jane Mayer

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• 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

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

  Jane Mayer

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

  Jane Mayer

  Pushing, Bigs, Policy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Jane Mayer

  Climate, Action, Spending

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• [Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would be very happy with too. So it's not all bad for them.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Would Be, Lists

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• There are some areas where the Kochs are on the same page with [Donald] Trump. He doesn't believe in global warming. He says it's a hoax .

  Jane Mayer

  Believe, Pages, Hoaxes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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 they are on a different wavelength.

  Jane Mayer

  America, Different, Wavelength

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• 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