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 …

- Peggy Noonan

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

- Peggy Noonan

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.

- Peggy Noonan

No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequester…

- 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 - le…

- Peggy Noonan

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team …

- Peggy Noonan

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

- Peggy Noonan

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes u…

- Peggy Noonan

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the ob…

- Peggy Noonan