Peggy Noonan Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• 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

  Nature, Interesting, Political

  What I Saw at the Revolution "Another Epilogue" (1990)

• You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'

  Peggy Noonan

  America, Political, Gone

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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

  Peggy Noonan

  Love, Disappointment, Fall

  Peggy Noonan, Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy, Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (1990). “Today's Best Nonfiction”

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

  Peggy Noonan

  Strong, Politics, Sincerity

• In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions of serious beliefs. They believed that America was an exceptional country.

  Peggy Noonan

  Country, Party, Thoughtful

• [democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Thinking, Politics

• This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

  Peggy Noonan

  Running, America, Politics

• The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Abortion, Looks

• George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

  Peggy Noonan

  House, Political, President

• The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

  Peggy Noonan

  Jobs, Party, Tired

• The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Politics, Republican

• The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

  Peggy Noonan

  Loyalty, Party, Believe

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