"I believe politics is a team sport. That,……" — Rick Perlstein
"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 two teams."
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39 Quotes by Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein has 39 quotes on this site.
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When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is…
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting…
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology…
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Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of…
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Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his…
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under…
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the…
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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