All George Will Quotes
- 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 their restaurant bills… Americans
- Sports is the toy department of life. Department
- It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country… Achieve
- The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work. Better
- Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that… Asshole
- The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children Children
- Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies. Articulateness
- So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the… Authority
- Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane… Abroad
- [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… Audience
- The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money. Liberal
- For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing. Believe
- The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall… Any
- [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. Coercion
- The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time,… Advertising
- There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules. Aura
- All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority. Advances
- Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope. Any
- The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was… France
- Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty. Been
- Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private. Appetite
- Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished. Bright
- 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 contemplation… Aim
- It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created... Affirmed
- National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants. Age