Quote by

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.
– Rick Perlstein

Related Quotes:

  1. We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake. – Sunday Adelaja
  2. I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us? – DJ MacLennan
  3. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy? – Rick Perlstein
  4. Governing is not a hero’s profession. It is a profession of compromises. – Rick Perlstein
  5. 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. – Rick Perlstein
  6. He talks to people’s grievances, but he doesn’t seem mad. -“ Elizabeth Drew – Rick Perlstein
  7. Now even reformers needed political machines. – Rick Perlstein
  8. Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally. – Rick Perlstein
  9. Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. – Rick Perlstein
  10. Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. – Rick Perlstein
  11. A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman. – Rick Perlstein
  12. Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964. – Rick Perlstein
  13. Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. – Rick Perlstein
  14. (President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity. – Rick Perlstein
  15. Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you. – Rick Perlstein
  16. In politics, if you’re explaining, you’re loosing. – Rick Perlstein
  17. Do what you are doing. Monastic motto – Rick Perlstein
  18. Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure. – Rick Perlstein
  19. Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes. – Rick Perlstein
  20. Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at. – Rick Perlstein
  21. Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. – Cormac McCarthy
  22. Good storytellers are always ready for the next question. – Shannon Wiersbitzky
  23. Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  24. Presidents are selected, not elected. – Franklin D Roosevelt
  25. Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. – Jennifer Donnelly
  26. Presidents make history. I’m just a tool of history. – Chris Weitz
  27. In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. – Steve Allen
  28. Presidents Trump’s USA is not a good country to be a sickly person in. – Steven Magee
  29. Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope. – George Friedman
  30. I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. – Nicole Fende
  31. Optimists are more qualified storytellers. – Tomorrowland
  32. We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear. – Kamand Kojouri
  33. Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience. – Kevin Focke
  34. That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. – Kelly Marcel Sue Smith
  35. A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. – Ben Okri
  36. Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers. – AD Posey
  37. Storytellers don’t show, they tell. I’m sticking with that. – Ashly Lorenzana
  38. Storytellers think they’re writing for the audience. They’re writing, in a way, to hurt the audience. – Chuck Wendig
  39. Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
  40. National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More Quotes

, , , ,