If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Peggy Noonan
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  3. Do your best and let God do the rest. - Ben Carson

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More Quotes By Peggy Noonan
  1. We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom.... Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those...

  2. What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits...

  3. But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

  4. Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

  5. Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what...

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