Rick Perlstein Quotes
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In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.
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Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
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Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
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In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.
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When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
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Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.
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In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
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It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.
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I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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