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Do what you are doing. Monastic motto — Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip. — Rick Perlstein

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. — Rick Perlstein

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed. — Rick Perlstein

Perlstein says a movement gives you a chance, to make anger boiling inside you ennobling, productive, powerful, instead of embittering. — Rick Perlstein

God might choose his own time, but Reagan had a taste for coming to the rescue. — Rick Perlstein

(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity. — Rick Perlstein

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

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

Chits knew no ideology. — Rick Perlstein

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science. — Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at. — Rick Perlstein

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

This trip was not about running for president. This trip was preparing to BE president. — Rick Perlstein

He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone. — Rick Perlstein

Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions. — Rick Perlstein

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era. — Rick Perlstein

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon — Rick Perlstein

Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed. — Rick Perlstein

Ideas in politics are often intuition fancy dress. — Rick Perlstein

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am. — Rick Perlstein

They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join. — Rick Perlstein

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. — Rick Perlstein

Politics is motion." John Sears — Rick Perlstein

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

I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it. — Rick Perlstein

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives. — Rick Perlstein

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises. — Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much. — Rick Perlstein

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally. — Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates. — Rick Perlstein

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment. — Rick Perlstein

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964. — Rick Perlstein

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein

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

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. — Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise. — Rick Perlstein

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

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger. — Rick Perlstein

In Texas, the lies wore cowboy boots. — Rick Perlstein

Now even reformers needed political machines. — Rick Perlstein

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good. — Rick Perlstein

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites. — Rick Perlstein

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends. — Rick Perlstein

They made strategy at 33,000 feet (on) the campaign plane. — Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious? — Rick Perlstein

He fetishized limits. — Rick Perlstein

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination. — Rick Perlstein

The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities. — Rick Perlstein

Insistent opening bark of the UPI's Helen Thomas: — Rick Perlstein

Wartime experience as an Office of Price Administration consultant for the candy industry — Rick Perlstein

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing. — Rick Perlstein

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein

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

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop. — Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. — Rick Perlstein

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. — Rick Perlstein

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time. — Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' — Rick Perlstein

Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch. — Rick Perlstein

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman. — Rick Perlstein

People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group. — Rick Perlstein

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you. — Rick Perlstein

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know. — Rick Perlstein

Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority. — Rick Perlstein

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure. — Rick Perlstein