Noonan delivered this line near the conclusion of her speech as a distillation of everything she had argued. After calling on conservatives to stop hating institutions and to approach political failures with a spirit of repair rather than denigration, she offered this principle as the foundation of constructive civic engagement. Quoting the writer Yuval Levin's warning that 'a conservatism that despises its society's institutions is self-destructive,' Noonan argued that you cannot hate the government, the press, the courts, and the other side while claiming to be constructive. The line transcends partisan politics — it is a universal call to lead with affection rather than animosity.