All George Will Quotes
- Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal. Americans
- I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on.… Act
- They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. Acute
- As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. Been
- The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done… Advanced
- Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this… Abelard
- Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure,… Appreciation
- Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing… Business
- Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although… Andr
- The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of… Both
- It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet. Gourmet
- A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation… Capitalism
- It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in… Air
- Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone… Accomplished
- It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic… Barack
- Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… Been
- Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills… Barack
- Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He… Been
- [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… Constitutional
- As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people… Advertising
- It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could… Any
- Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than… Aghast
- Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using… Behavior
- The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory… Agencies
- The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This… Aggrandizing