Amy Goodman Quotes

The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate.

Most presidents have been controlled by forces that control money and special interests. When Donald Trump refused their money, he refused their control. This made him dangerous.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

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.

To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they're not really the establishment. I can't obviously speak for Senator Bernie Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we've seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.

That's why they're in the problem - having the problem they're having. They're not conservative. They're being run by their donors.

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

From campaign contributions to expensive perks paid for by special interests, wealthy donors and corporate special interests have increasingly been able to purchase influence and promote their agendas in Congress.

Who is Allen West? What is Allen West doing with his time? He's the most irrelevant person in America.

I'm not a lobbyist.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

You combine the Tea Party along with our support with the Republican base and grassroots, and it makes for a winning combination.

To sustain the Trump Revolution, we must empower Trump's champions to drive positive change across America. And we must defeat 'Never Trump' elements wherever we find them.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

Republicans are being loyal to their donors. They're being loyal to the paymasters, if you will. And it's squandering an opportunity.

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