Rick Perlstein quotes

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. (Rick Perlstein)
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood. View quote
Rick Perlstein
Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972. View quote
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Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection. View quote
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In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. View quote
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Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives. View quote
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I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. View quote
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No historical analogies are exactly precise. View quote
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I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it. View quote
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In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip. View quote
Rick Perlstein