15 Quotes by Rick Perlstein about Leadership
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Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.
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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.
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He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew
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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.
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The best measure of a politician’s electoral success was becoming not how successfully he could broker people’s desires, but how well he could tap their fears.
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The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.
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