Rick Perlstein Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. 1969
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.
source: "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011. 
topic: Powerful, Lying, Two, Powerful Person
