125 Quotes by Peggy Noonan

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

Hubert Humphrey’s wife is said to have advised him: “Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

What do you think of your job as? What service are you performing in society? What’s the point of what you do?

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...

Abortion is either OK or it’s not.

We are all afraid. That’s the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that’s why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It’s fear.

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...

Boundaries aren’t all bad. That’s why there are walls around mental institutions.

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.