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A great speech is literature.

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Peggy Noonan
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 7
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New York
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It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.
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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.
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
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Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.
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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.
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Part of courage is simple consistency.
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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.
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Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
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What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?
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The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.
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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
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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.
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Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the ask not what you can do... speech, he would answer 'ask not.'
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What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.
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When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
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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.
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Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
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