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

A great speech is literature.
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

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.
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

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