Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal. Rick Perlstein
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  2. I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me... - Emilie Autumn

  3. Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. - Toba Beta

  5. Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line. - Anthony T.Hincks

More Quotes By Rick Perlstein
  1. College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

  2. Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

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

  4. Politics is motion." John Sears

  5. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

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