"It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals……" — Rick Perlstein
"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."
—
Rick Perlstein
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
39 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…
-
Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting…
-
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…
-
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of…
-
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his…
-
Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under…
-
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the…
-
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.
-
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
See all 39 quotes by Rick Perlstein »
More Backlash Quotes
This quote is filed under Backlash Quotes,
one of 46 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
— Jo Brand
-
So I think there's going to be a constituent backlash against this thing soon, as they see it moving in…
— Steve King
-
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
— Susan Faludi
-
Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism…
— Jonny Greenwood
-
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a…
— Olivia Wilde
-
I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- that’s the way…
— Zac Efron
-
Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then…
— Margaret Thatcher
-
Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists -- but there's never a…
— Hank Williams, Jr.
-
I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was…
— Jesse McCartney
-
You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.
— Sara Bareilles
-
After facing backlash from customers, Subway says it will remove a chemical in its bread that is also found in…
— Jimmy Fallon
-
When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for…
— Khloe Kardashian
See all 46 Backlash Quotes »