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 More Quotes by Peggy Noonan More Quotes From Peggy Noonan The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore. Peggy Noonan news groups america The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today. Peggy Noonan sculpture yesterday snow Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive. Peggy Noonan mad moving thinking The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn’t do, an action they did or didn’t support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe. Peggy Noonan support political careers The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy. Peggy Noonan nervous funeral faces Let's cause some senators distress. Peggy Noonan distress senators causes Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style. Peggy Noonan resentment magnetic style 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 political party historical At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"? Peggy Noonan shoes floating rivers I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor. Peggy Noonan sailing boredom apathy Read good, big important things. Peggy Noonan important reading book I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. Peggy Noonan fog love moving when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane. Peggy Noonan insane together men [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 addresses president thinking I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor. Peggy Noonan election democratic party I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. Peggy Noonan speech dream needs We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. Peggy Noonan free-speech freedom-of-speech needs 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 political president house 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 party loyalty believe 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 tired party jobs
