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American Quotes by George Will
- Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
- Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
- Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged…
- 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…
- 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…
- Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
- The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit…
- In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their…
- Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
- Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
- 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…
- Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because…
- The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are…
- In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country…
- Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee…
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca