10+ Rick Perlstein Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Rick Perlstein quotes and sayings.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein

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

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it. — Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise. — 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

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

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. — Rick Perlstein

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it. — 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

It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues. — Rick Perlstein