"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything." ― Peggy Noonan Topic(s): Politics More From Peggy Noonan "Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk." "The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain." "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." More In Politics "A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."― Woodrow Wilson "As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."― Daniel J. Boorstin "I don’t take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more."― Robert Carlyle