Quotes by : Rick Perlstein

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand....

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond....

Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.

The head of Goldwater's California operation "what was so uncomfortable around people that he worked....

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim....

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan,....

Politics is motion." John Sears