Peggy Noonan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.”
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“In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.”
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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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“By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.”
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“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”
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“A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.”
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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 place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
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“Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.”
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“The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn't do, an action they did or didn't support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.”
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“What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.”
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“But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.”
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“We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.”
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“In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.”
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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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“The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.”
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“[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.”
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“The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.”
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“I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.”
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“one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.”
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“Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.”
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“when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.”
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“[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.”
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“The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.”
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“The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.”
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“When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator”
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“Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...”
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“Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.”
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