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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

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I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

- Louis Farrakhan

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Consistency

Part of courage is simple consistency.

- Peggy Noonan

Friends Equality

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

- Peggy Noonan

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

Love

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

Nothing Politics

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

Crime Nothing

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

- Peggy Noonan

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