Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain. — George Will Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share Image
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. — George Will Copy Share Image
Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we… — George Will Copy Share Image
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests… — George Will Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving… — George Will Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share Image
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt… — George Will Copy Share Image
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty. — George Will Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights. — George Will Copy Share Image
