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Quote by Peggy Noonan
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Dont go along to get along do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else. – Peggy Noonan

Other quotes by Peggy Noonan

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

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War
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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

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Politics
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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. – Peggy Noonan

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey

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As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. – Bill Owens

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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. – P. J. ORourke

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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