Peggy Noonan Quotes

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan

Equality, True, Friends

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Peggy Noonan

War, Mind, Hard

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Peggy Noonan

Between, Choice, Religious

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
Peggy Noonan

Best, Government, Else

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Peggy Noonan

Politics, Strong, Everything

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Peggy Noonan

Politics, Place, Often

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Peggy Noonan

Miracles, Beyond, Exist

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
Peggy Noonan

Love, Help, Fall

Part of courage is simple consistency.
Peggy Noonan

Courage, Simple

A great speech is literature.
Peggy Noonan

Great, Speech, Literature

Abortion is either OK or it's not.
Peggy Noonan

Either, Abortion, Ok

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
Peggy Noonan

Love, Moving, Short

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
Peggy Noonan

Crazy, Nothing, Big

Let's cause some senators distress.
Peggy Noonan

Cause, Distress, Senators

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
Peggy Noonan

Great, Speech, Magic

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.
Peggy Noonan

Politics, Moving, Nothing

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
Peggy Noonan

Everyone, Image, Radio

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Peggy Noonan

America, Old, Gone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 7, 1950

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