{"author":"Rick Perlstein","author_id":"Rick+Perlstein","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["communication","language","marketing","persuasion"],"id":6174,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["brand","me","people "],"id":15693,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["approachability","arrogance","charisma","listening","word-choice"],"id":41016,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["emotion","identity"],"id":50878,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["history","future","rich "],"id":51439,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"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.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["bitterness","i-delatre-bitterness","idolatry","optimism"],"id":57511,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["good","fun","feel good "],"id":93383,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["education","stress","college "],"id":96834,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["culture","influence","simplification"],"id":106615,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"},{"text":"Chits knew no ideology.","author":"Rick Perlstein","tags":["influence","leadership","loyalty"],"id":120476,"author_id":"Rick+Perlstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}