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27 quotes by Peggy Noonan

Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan (born September 7, 1950) is an American author of seven books on politics, religion, and culture, and a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal. She was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and has maintained a conservative leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan Administration. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan is a trustee of the...
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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

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

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

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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... →

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Let's cause some senators distress.

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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.

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty... →

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Abortion is either OK or it's not.

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

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

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A great speech is literature.

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

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