Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance. — George Will Copy Share Image
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people. — George Will Copy Share Image
Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's… — George Will Copy Share Image
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been… — George Will Copy Share Image
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they… — George Will Copy Share Image
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro… — George Will Copy Share Image
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome… — George Will Copy Share Image
Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as… — George Will Copy Share Image
I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with… — George Will Copy Share Image
As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more… — George Will Copy Share Image
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between… — George Will Copy Share Image
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and… — George Will Copy Share Image
Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo… — George Will Copy Share Image
The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this:… — George Will Copy Share Image
The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what… — George Will Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a… — George Will Copy Share Image
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed… — George Will Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now… — George Will Copy Share Image
Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to… — George Will Copy Share Image
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping… — George Will Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — 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
