Peggy Noonan Quotes

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

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Who knows what to make of the weighting of the polls and the assumptions as to who will vote? Who knows the depth and breadth of each party's turnout efforts? Among the wisest words spoken this cycle were by John Dickerson of CBS News and Slate, who said, in a conversation the night before the last presidential debate, that he thought maybe the American people were quietly cooking something up, something we don't know about. I think they are and I think it's this: a Romney win.

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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 become a better communicator

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The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives.

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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.

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

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

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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money...

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Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice — like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

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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 and wisdom....Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

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