« All Alger Quotes
·
Rick Perlstein's Page
Alger Quotes by Rick Perlstein
1 Alger quote by Rick Perlstein
More Quotes by Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
-
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review…
-
Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
-
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
-
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals…
-
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance…
-
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to…
-
Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb…
-
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue -…
-
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
-
Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
-
Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
See all 39 quotes by Rick Perlstein »
More Alger Quotes
Popular Alger quotes from across the collection:
-
Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio…
— Paul Galanti
-
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
-
The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or…
— Unknown Author
-
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health…
— Waverley Root
-
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam…
— David Frum
-
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…
— Manny Farber
-
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
-
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
— Hunter S. Thompson
-
Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
— Rick Perlstein
See all Alger Quotes »
Browse Rick Perlstein Quotes by Category