Jane Mayer Quotes

The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

The Republican establishment who did not want Trump to win - either the primary, in some cases the general - they were unable to do anything that impacted the actual vote.

If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.

The Koch brothers spent millions against me.

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

If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.

Big money and corporate interest drown out a lot of voices.

Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.

I honestly think that Donald Trump's only adviser is his doorman.

President Donald Trump set out to drain the Washington swamp, and perhaps no one has aided him more effectively than senior adviser Jared Kushner.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

[Hillary] Clinton, she conceded. [Donald Trump] beat her.

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

It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.

Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.

[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.

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do.

Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.