Top 50 Rick Perlstein Quotes

What is considered ‘conservative’ and what is considered ‘liberal’ changes in any given era.
Rick Perlstein
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue – and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
Rick Perlstein
I’m reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
Rick Perlstein
Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally – especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s – I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right ‘thought.’
Rick Perlstein