Peggy Noonan Quotes
Let's cause some senators distress.
Noonan, Peggy. The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company.
This quotation is very critical to people interested in the Libertarian party and libertarian movements. Although she literally “loathed” the libertarians of the day, almost all modern libertarians credit the modern libertarian movement have not only started with her but even into the 21st century she is acknowledged to be the largest intellectual force of libertarianism. Actually, she was a very strong person with very firm ideas, and she was criticized by some people who called themselves libertarian and did not follow her philosophy of individual responsibility and liberty. Her reaction was not only to avoid identifying with them but to differentiate herself whenever she could.
At the time Dulles was the Assistant Secretary & Near East Division chief of the State Department. Congress was outraged over the Turkish massacres of the Armenians, the Russian pogroms against the Jews, and the Belgian atrocities against the Blacks in the Congo. However, the State Department was then more interested in maintaining relations for our corporations than the moral aspects of mass murder within a country.
When his Republican political opponents controlled Congress, they had constant Congressional investigations of the President and his wife. Tens of millions of dollars were spent, and the President was constantly diverted from the important problems to deal with the investigations. For all that time and money all they came up with was the fact that Clinton was having a sexual liaison with a White House intern and lied about it to keep the information away from his wife, daughter and the public. The Republican majority impeached Clinton late in his second term, and when a trial was held in the Senate, the Republicans could not even get 50% of the Senators to vote “Guilty.” Clinton began to joke about the ineffectual Republican efforts.
Turley was a strong supporter of the nomination of John Ashcroft as George W. Bush’s Attorney General in 2000. However, after Ashcroft was confirmed and in office, he came up with a plan for government detention (concentration) camps where he claimed the authority to hold suspects indefinitely without charges or trial. Turley withdrew his support and endorsement, and became one of Ashcroft’s major critics.
Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers.
