Rick Perlstein quotes
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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.”
-- Rick PerlsteinSource : "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.
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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.”
-- Rick PerlsteinSource : "Gun nuts are terrorizing America: The watershed moment everyone missed" by Rick Perlstein, www.salon.com. June 23, 2014.
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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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“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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“No historical analogies are exactly precise.”
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“I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.”
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“In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.”
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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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“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 politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.”
-- Rick PerlsteinSource : "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America". Book by Rick Perlstein, 2010.
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