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122 ”I'm not a U.S. company and I don't make decisions based”

Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (New York: Penguin Press, 2012), p. 71.

123 ”dependence upon the positions of particular governments”

Bakan, The Corporation, p. 25.

124 ”n.o.body tells those guys what to do”

Coll, Private Empire, p. 257.

125 political action committees exploded

Federal Election Commission, ”The Growth of Political Action Committees, 19741998,” /Growth_of_PACs_by_Type.htm.

126 corporations with registered corporate lobbyists

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Was.h.i.+ngton Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Cla.s.s (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), p. 118.

127 from $100 million in 1975 to $3.5 billion per year in 2010

Robert G. Kaiser, ”Citizen K Street: Introduction,” Was.h.i.+ngton Post, March 2007, blog.was.h.i.+ngtonpost.com/citizen-k-street/chapters/introduction/; Bennett Roth and Alex Knott, ”Lobby Dollars Dip for First Time in Years,” Roll Call, February 1, 2011.

128 top the list of lobbying expenditures

Roth and Knott, ”Lobby Dollars Dip for First Time in Years.”

129 more than all lobbyist expenditures combined when the Powell Plan

Kaiser, ”Citizen K Street: Introduction.”

130 only 3 percent of retiring members of Congress

Lessig, Republic, Lost, p. 123.