Secret Empires Quotes

“Sometimes, politicians will literally offshore corruption by moving the location of the deal, the entities, and the players involved, abroad. Other times, they offshore corruption metaphorically by shifting the cronyism out of their own hands and into those of their children or a close friend to leverage from afar and avoid detection.”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“Machiavelli declared that it was better to be feared than loved as a leader, but you did not want to be hated. Hatred led to conspiracy. And conspiracy, he warned, could bring down governments.”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“What Hunter Biden, the son of America’s vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state) were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital.”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“So while the Obama administration was laying out the challenge posed by China in the global minerals race, the son of the vice president and a confidant of the secretary of state were invested in deals that would help Beijing win that resource race.”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“Throw Them All Out,”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“In short, this is corruption by proxy. It is essentially a form of “political arbitrage,” where friends and family members of powerful political figures have positioned themselves to serve as conduits or middle men between those seeking influence and those who possess political power.”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“A major source of Steyer’s wealth was financing coal projects in Indonesia and Australia.”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

“Clinton Cash,”
― Peter Schweizer, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends