All George Will Quotes
- If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with… Central
- Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. Business
- Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. Admirable
- Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. Argument
- Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly. Basely
- If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. Elevating
- Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people. Advice
- Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. American
- Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election. Abhors
- Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. Democracy
- Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. Education
- The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. America
- Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what. Cannot Hold
- A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk… Academic
- I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas… American
- America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why… America
- Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand… Arizona
- Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim… Arizonans
- Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately… Accelerate
- Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. Big
- Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of… Burden
- Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation… All
- Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic… Analysis
- Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because… Accept
- Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively… Alaska