Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

- Jeff Sharlet

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

- Jeff Sharlet

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

- Jeff Sharlet

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

- Jeff Sharlet

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

- Jeff Sharlet

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

- Jeff Sharlet

You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

- Jeff Sharlet

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

- Jeff Sharlet

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to…

- Jeff Sharlet