Peggy Noonan Quotes
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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 most qualified? No. I think they went for this - excuse me - political bullshit about narratives.
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At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like 'That's a busted tire floating by' and 'That's an old shoe'?
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A great speech is literature.
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I think it's Romney. I think he's stealing in 'like a thief with good tools,' in Walker Percy's old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney's slipping into the presidency. He's quietly rising, and he's been rising for a while.
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Let's cause some senators distress.
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Abortion is either OK or it's not.
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I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
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Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. John Kennedy had wit, and so did Lincoln, who also had abundant humor; Reagan was mostly humor.