Peggy Noonan Quotes

A great speech is literature.
Peggy Noonan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's cause some senators distress.
Peggy Noonan

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.
Peggy Noonan

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

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

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

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

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

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Peggy Noonan Quotes

Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: September 7, 1950 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Peggy Noonan Related Authors: Napoleon Hill Dale Carnegie Oliver Wendell Holmes Robert A. Heinlein H. L. Mencken Anne Morrow Lindbergh Denis Waitley Eric Hoffer Rick Warren	A great speech is literature. Peggy Noonan Abortion is either OK or it's not. Peggy Noonan 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 Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. Peggy Noonan 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 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 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 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 Let's cause some senators distress. Peggy Noonan 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 Part of courage is simple consistency. Peggy Noonan Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. Peggy Noonan Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. Peggy Noonan 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 TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. Peggy Noonan You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. Peggy Noonan