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.

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

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

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

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.

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

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.