Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. – 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
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. Its how true friends talk. – Peggy Noonan