Best Peggy Noonan Sayings
- My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. Age
- 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… Barren
- Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping Cowardly
- Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions. All
- We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity… Alive
- I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech,… Control
- What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the… Acknowledge
- 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… Beanbag
- 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… Brilliant
- 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… Better
- All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. All
- There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views. Conducting
- Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out. Called