Peggy Noonan Quotes
Most popular Peggy Noonan Quotes
![Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style. - Peggy Noonan quote.](/img/q/79/38879A-resentment-isnt-a-magnetic-personal-style-peggy-noonan.png)
Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.
![A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! - Peggy Noonan quote.](/img/q/59/40059A-a-speech-is-poetry-cadence-rhythm-imagery-sweep-peggy-noonan.png)
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep!
![Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows. - Peggy Noonan quote.](/img/q/68/33068A-humor-is-the-shock-absorber-of-life-it-helps-us-peggy-noonan.png)
Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.
![Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. - Peggy Noonan quote.](/img/q/86/14286A-candor-is-a-compliment-it-implies-equality-its-how-true-peggy-noonan.png)
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
![Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it's everything. - Peggy Noonan quote.](/img/q/34/15234A-sincerity-and-competence-is-a-strong-combination-politics-its-everything-peggy-noonan.png)
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it's everything.
![Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. - Peggy Noonan quote.](/img/q/58/14858A-wit-penetrates-humor-envelops-wit-is-function-verbal-intelligence-humor-peggy-noonan.png)
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
![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 quote.](/img/q/06/37706A-the-battle-for-the-mind-of-ronald-reagan-was-like-peggy-noonan.png)
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.
![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 quote.](/img/q/63/37763A-beware-the-politically-obsessed-they-are-often-bright-interesting-but-peggy-noonan.png)
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.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.