Term Quotes by George Will

10 Term quotes by George Will

George Will’s commentary on the concept of a term comes through in ten succinct observations. This brief set captures his analytical voice, offering a quick reference for readers interested in his take on language.

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Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that…

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Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever…

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Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay…

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Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through…

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With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the…

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Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than…

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The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice…

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Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

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As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

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Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we…

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The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of…

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It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

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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…

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The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture…

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When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their…

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“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

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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…

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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

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Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

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