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"This year I am seeing something, especially among the young of politics and journalism. They have received most of what they know about political history through screens. They are college graduates, they’re in their 20s or 30s, they’re bright and ambitious, but they have seen the movie and not read the book. They’ve heard the sound bite but not read the speech. Their understanding of history, even recent history, is superficial.

They grew up in the Internet age and have filled their brain-space with information that came in the form of pictures and sounds. They learned through sensation, not through books, which demand something deeper from your brain. Reading forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect.”

-Peggy Noonan

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"After Amazon’s withdrawal no major company will open a new HQ in NY for a generation. No CEO is invest all that time and money, only to see it collapse in bitter headlines in a town whose political life is dominated by a wild and rising progressive left."

-Peggy Noonan

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"[Travelgate] was the Clintons’ first big Washington scandal. It showed what has now become the Clinton Scandal Ritual: lie, deny, revise, claim not to remember specifics, stall for time. When it passes, call the story “old news” full of questions that have already been answered. “As I’ve repeatedly said . . .”

More scandals would follow. They all showed poor judgment on the part of the president, and usually Mrs. Clinton. They all included a startling willingness—and ability—to dissemble...

The point is it didn’t start the past few years, it started almost a quarter-century ago. You have to wonder, what are the chances it will change?"

-Peggy Noonan

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"She's been driven in limousines and official cars almost all her adult life. For more than a quarter-century she has seen America through tinted windows."

-Peggy Noonan, on Hillary Clinton

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The Rick Warren (Saddleback Church) debate mattered. Why? It took place at exactly the moment America was starting to pay attention. This is what it looked like by the end of the night:
Mr. McCain, normal.
Mr. Obama, not normal.

-Peggy Noonan