All Rick Perlstein Quotes
- Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another… Another Seventy
- Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting for… American
- The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal… Belongs
- Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money… All
- Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of… Authorities
- Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives. Freer
- What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of… Alternative
- In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks… Bedroom
- While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans… Alternatives
- Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time. Argued
- I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for… Allows
- One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good. American
- In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. American
- My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan… American
- I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What… Historians
- Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless… Ability
- When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday… Boring
- I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be… All
- Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say… America