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.
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
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
This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.
Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style. - Peggy Noonan
Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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 …
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity. - Peggy Noonan
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
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
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…
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
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…
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