Quotes by : Rick Perlstein

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political....

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

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

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

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

Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called....

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.

Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist....

Politics is motion." John Sears