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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. — Peggy Noonan

Enjoy life, it's ungrateful not to, said Ronald Reagan. — Peggy Noonan

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything. — Peggy Noonan

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. — Peggy Noonan

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

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. — Peggy Noonan

Abortion is either OK or it's not. — Peggy Noonan

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. — Peggy Noonan

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. — Peggy Noonan

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised. — Peggy Noonan

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. — Peggy Noonan

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived. — Peggy Noonan

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less. — Peggy Noonan

Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they're great. — Peggy Noonan

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

A sermon expands to fill the time allotted to complete. it — Peggy Noonan

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven. — Peggy Noonan

When men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane. — Peggy Noonan

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions. — Peggy Noonan

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

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. — Peggy Noonan

Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive. — 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

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered. — Peggy Noonan

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. — Peggy Noonan

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable. — Peggy Noonan

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore. — Peggy Noonan

I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first. — Peggy Noonan

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs. — Peggy Noonan

Part of courage is simple consistency. — Peggy Noonan

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans. — Peggy Noonan

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. — Peggy Noonan

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage — Peggy Noonan

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out. — Peggy Noonan

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. — Peggy Noonan

As we have become more open minded (tolerant) in society we have become more closed hearted. — Peggy Noonan

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it. — Peggy Noonan

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough. — Peggy Noonan

He [Pope Benedict XVI] spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: Be not afraid — Peggy Noonan

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
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Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so. — 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

A great speech is literature. — Peggy Noonan

Let's cause some senators distress. — Peggy Noonan

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine. — Peggy Noonan

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone. — Peggy Noonan