1. Sidney Blumenthal, The Permanent Campaign, rev. edition (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 24. See also pp. 297–298.
2. David R. Gergen, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to Clinton (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 210, 348.
3. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 45, 106, 136.
4. Quoted in Victor Gold, “George Bush Speaks Out,” The Washingtonian, February 1994, p. 41.
5. Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 471.