““People always ask me one question all the time: ‘How do I know that I won’t be found out as a supporter of what you’re doing?’…We run all of this stuff through nonprofit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity. People don’t know who supports us.”

—Lobbyist Richard Berman, secretly recorded giving advice to oil and gas industry executives on demonizing their opponents, as provided to Eric Lipton of the NYT.