"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything." ― Peggy Noonan Topic(s): Politics More From Peggy Noonan "Part of courage is simple consistency." "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." "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." More In Politics "I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can."― Mandy Patinkin "Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do."― Bob Geldof "Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life."― Mitt Romney