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1. "What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported." ~ Peggy Noonan
2. "Part of courage is simple consistency." ~ Peggy Noonan
3. "Abortion is either OK or it's not." ~ Peggy Noonan
4. "Let's cause some senators distress." ~ Peggy Noonan
5. "Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy." ~ Peggy Noonan
6. "TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains." ~ Peggy Noonan
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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." ~ Peggy Noonan
10. "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
11. "Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it's not only the best answer but the only one." ~ Peggy Noonan
12. "Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping" ~ Peggy Noonan
13. "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." ~ Peggy Noonan
14. "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
15. "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
16. "Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything." ~ Peggy Noonan
17. "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
18. "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
19. "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
20. "Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are." ~ Peggy Noonan
21. "A great speech is literature." ~ Peggy Noonan
22. "Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service...." ~ Peggy Noonan
23. "Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, 'Go outside and play in the culture,' and the culture -- relatively innocent, and boring -- could be more or less trusted to bring the kids up. Grown ups now know that you can't send the kids out to play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed." ~ Peggy Noonan
24. "Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature." ~ Peggy Noonan

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