Peggy Noonan Quotes

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

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

Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

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

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.