Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. – 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
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
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