159 Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Now even reformers needed political machines.

Politics is motion." John Sears

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

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

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

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew

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

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