David Koch Quotes & Sayings

By this point in history - after the 2008 collapse of Wall Street and in the midst of layers of ecological crises - free market fundamentalists should, by all rights, be exiled to a similarly irrelevant status, left to fondle their copies of Milton Friedman's Free to Choose and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in obscurity. They are saved from this ignominious fate only because their ideas about corporate liberation, no matter how demonstrably at war with reality, remain so profitable to the world's billionaires that they are kept fed and clothed in think tanks by the likes of Charles and David Koch, owners of the diversified dirty energy giant Koch Industries, and ExxonMobil. — Naomi Klein

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard

This kind of compartmentalizing - separating one's livelihood from one's social aspirations - is part of the reason David Koch, the hidden hand behind a lot of ultraconservatives and, reportedly, the Tea Party movement in the United States, transforms himself into a respected arts patron by funding a theater at Lincoln Center, or why at Swiss bank that helps U.S. depositors avoid paying taxes generously supports symphony halls and the ballet. It's almost as if there are moral scales, and by tossing some loot on one side, you can balance out the precarious situation your reputation might be getting into on the other. — David Byrne

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal. — David H. Koch

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected. — David H. Koch

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid. — David H. Koch

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. — Joseph Heller

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco dancing at the wrong places. — David H. Koch

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight. — David H. Koch

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs. — David H. Koch

I contribute to public candidate campaigns, and there's a federal limit on how much you can contribute to each individual candidate. I obey the law in that regard, and I feel like I'm doing it properly. — David H. Koch

Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week. — Hugh Hewitt

I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about it. — David H. Koch

I believe in gay marriage. — David H. Koch

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion. — David H. Koch

Among other strategies, he set up a "charitable lead trust" that enabled him to pass on his estate to his sons without inheritance taxes, so long as the sons donated the accruing interest on the principal to charity for twenty years. To maximize their self-interest, in other words, the Koch boys were compelled to be charitable. Tax avoidance was thus the original impetus for the Koch brothers' extraordinary philanthropy. As David Koch later explained, "So for 20 years, I had to give away all that income, and I sort of got into it. — Jane Mayer

Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself. — Rumi

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me. — Sean Maguire

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions. — David H. Koch

When I was a bachelor with a different girl on my arm every week, people didn't think I was quite legitimate. — David H. Koch

change, had been a featured guest at a fund-raiser that David Koch hosted for about seventy of the — Jane Mayer

'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving. — David H. Koch