Quotes by Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan

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.

Children

Heart

Poetry

Abortion is either OK or it’s not.

Abortion

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.

Interesting

Nature

Political

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

Risk

Too Much

Trying

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

Communication

Friendship

True Friend

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

Mean

Trying

Wisdom

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

Disappointment

Fall

Love

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren’t a little flower somebody sewed on.

Expression

Flower

Together

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.

Accomplishment

Return

Way

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.

Fog

Love

Moving

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Abortion

Accomplishment

Adults

Aids

Air

America

Battle

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Brain

Business

Causes

Children

Choices

Communication

Consistency

Country

Courage

Crazy

Disappointment

Distress

Dream

Editing

Editors

Expression

Eye

Faces

Fall

Faults

Flower

Fog

Free Speech

Freedom Of Speech

Friendship

Function

Funeral

Giving

Gone

Government

Groups

Heart

Humor

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Including

Influence

Insane

Insanity

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Quotes by Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan

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.

Abortion is either OK or it’s not.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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