Top 25 Quotes by Peggy Noonan of 82 - Page 4

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Boredom, Sailing, Apathy

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

The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

Peggy Noonan

Party, Political, Historical

"Tea Party Movement Rescued the GOP" by Peggy Noonan, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 22, 2010.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

Peggy Noonan

Done, Way, Temperature

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.

Peggy Noonan

Men, Insane, Together

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

[On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.

Peggy Noonan

Thinking, President, Addresses

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Peggy Noonan

Ocean, Moving, Moved On

"The New Political Rumbling" by Peggy Noonan, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 22, 2010.