All George Will Quotes
- Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew… Almost Three
- When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not… Concerning
- Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through… America
- Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements… Addictive
- Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are… Adult
- I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly… Adult
- I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause… Cause
- 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 towards… Central
- If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is… Amendment
- In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980,… Allure
- The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. Constantly
- Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are… All
- World War II was the last government program that really worked. Government
- Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. America
- Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. Accomplish
- Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. Decide
- In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington… Citizens
- Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like… Bang
- Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. Conservative
- A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. Audience
- Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. Ability
- As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. Advertising
- Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. Congress
- The future has a way of arriving unannounced. Arriving
- The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. Character