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Now even reformers needed political machines.

Now even reformers needed political machines.
– Rick Perlstein

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  1. Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes. – Rick Perlstein
  2. We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. – Ray Bradbury
  3. Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. – Thomas Jefferson
  4. Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams – Paul C Nagel
  5. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. – Rick Riordan
  6. Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. – Rick Perlstein
  7. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy? – Rick Perlstein
  8. Governing is not a hero’s profession. It is a profession of compromises. – Rick Perlstein
  9. 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
  10. He talks to people’s grievances, but he doesn’t seem mad. -“ Elizabeth Drew – Rick Perlstein
  11. Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally. – Rick Perlstein
  12. Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. – Rick Perlstein
  13. Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. – Rick Perlstein
  14. A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman. – Rick Perlstein
  15. Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964. – Rick Perlstein
  16. Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism. – Rick Perlstein
  17. (President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity. – Rick Perlstein
  18. 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
  19. In politics, if you’re explaining, you’re loosing. – Rick Perlstein
  20. Do what you are doing. Monastic motto – Rick Perlstein
  21. Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure. – Rick Perlstein
  22. 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
  23. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. – John Emerich Edward DalbergActon
  24. I wasnt political in order to be political – Jerzy Grotowski
  25. The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing. – James Taranto
  26. Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points. – Andy Zaltzman
  27. As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker
  28. Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him. – Flix J Palma
  29. All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms. – Patti Smith
  30. I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother. – Ruth Ahmed
  31. Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us. – CT
  32. When you are not needed, you are not needed. Period! – honeya
  33. I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.- – Stephanie Carovella – Nina DAngelo
  34. We needed no Shakespeare to feel — though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it. – Inazo Nitobe
  35. I needed him like I needed air to breathe. – CJ English
  36. Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal? – Melika Dannese Lux
  37. He needed to taste her like he needed his next breath. – Katie Reus
  38. How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time. – Rick Yancey
  39. I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature’s only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. – Wilkie Collins
  40. When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines – Waqas Rabbani

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