Quotes by : Rick Perlstein

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image....

A confused and weak man hides his weakness and uncertainty with fiery speeches.

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King,....

In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that;....

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

Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal....