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About the Peggy Noonan
Margaret Ellen “Peggy” Noonan (born September 7, 1950), is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers.
Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A Tribute to Heroes.
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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.
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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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Let’s cause some senators distress.
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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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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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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.
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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 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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A great speech is literature.
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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.
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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 – leave, and be something else.
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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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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
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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.
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Abortion is either OK or it’s not.
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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.
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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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