“Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all ...” — Rick Perlstein Quote

“Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').”

“There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.”

“In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.”

“One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.”

“I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.”

“You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.”