Peggy Noonan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'”

“Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.”

“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”

“Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.”

“The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.”

“There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.”

“What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.”