“While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most De...” — Rick Perlstein Quote

“While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.”

“I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.”

“Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.”

“Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.”

“When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.”

“In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.”