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

- 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 American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

- Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

- Rick Perlstein

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

- Rick Perlstein

Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the commu…

- 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 a…

- Rick Perlstein

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

- 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