Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan candorcomplimentequality Change image and share on social
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault. Peggy Noonan bigcommitcrazy Change image and share on social
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. Peggy Noonan appearbeneathbottom share on social
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. Peggy Noonan bewarebrightempty share on social
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else. Peggy Noonan calmlycontributiongovernment Change image and share on social
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. Peggy Noonan birthbrainimage Change image and share on social
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. Peggy Noonan familygreathappen Change image and share on social
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. Peggy Noonan attemptemotioneulogy Change image and share on social
What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state. Peggy Noonan abortionanathemaandrew share on social
