More From Peggy Noonan
- "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk."
- "Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything."
- "If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along; do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else."
More In Courage
- "I’m very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids."― Nick Clegg
- "The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair."― Mercy Otis Warren
- "When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you’re not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that."― Ricky Williams