Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor. — George Will Copy Share Image
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda." -George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987” — George Will Copy Share Image
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. — George Will Copy Share Image
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. — George Will Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the… — 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
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
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. — George Will Copy Share Image
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable;… — George Will Copy Share Image
Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history,… — George Will Copy Share Image
The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your… — 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
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
In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time… — George Will Copy Share Image
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for… — George Will Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry.… — George Will Copy Share Image
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional… — George Will Copy Share Image
Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid… — George Will Copy Share Image
Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through… — George Will Copy Share Image
[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a… — George Will Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation… — George Will Copy Share Image
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the… — George Will Copy Share Image
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. — George Will Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can… — George Will Copy Share Image
Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse. — George Will Copy Share Image
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should… — 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 education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon… — George Will Copy Share Image
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics… — 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 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
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. — George Will Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share
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
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
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
![“Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some…” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/george-will-1177_accounts_mitt-romney-s-losing-at-this-point-in-a_1412550.png)
![“[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's…” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/george-will-1177_democrat_a-re-elected-mcconnell-with-a-republican_991206.png)
![“[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/george-will-1177_audience_president-george-w-bush-never-mind-his-w_336735.png)
![“The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/george-will-1177_amusing_the-education-of-this-president-obama-is_2767269.png)
