"It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it."

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Source : "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

Rick Perlstein

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“I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.”
“You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.”
“More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.”
“Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.”
“Their marketing strategy had to be changed to the young people. That's who buys the beer.”
“I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.”
“There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.”
“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.”

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