Rick Perlstein Best Quotations

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.