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
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the… — 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… — 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… — George Will Copy Share Image
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.” — George will Copy Share Image
When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing… — 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
[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to… — George Will Copy Share Image
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum… — George Will Copy Share Image
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,… — George Will Copy Share Image
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's… — George Will Copy Share Image
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what. — George Will Copy Share Image
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?...… — George Will Copy Share Image
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not… — George Will Copy Share Image
When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling… — George Will Copy Share Image
No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting. — George Will Copy Share Image
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for… — George Will Copy Share Image
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that… — George Will Copy Share Image
That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual… — George Will Copy Share Image
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will Copy Share Image
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. — George Will Copy Share Image
For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing. — 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