Peggy Noonan Quotes
Most popular Peggy Noonan Quotes

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep!

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it's everything.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

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.

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.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.