Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall Of Nixon And The Rise Of Reagan Quotes
College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.
Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.
Politics is motion." John Sears
What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.
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.
He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew
Now even reformers needed political machines.
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.
Do what you are doing. Monastic motto
Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.
Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.
He fetishized limits.
One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew
