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Political Quotes by George Will
- As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
- 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…
- The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose…
- Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
- The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting…
- The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior…
- 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…
- Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
- Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
- 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…
- Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
- A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
- Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
- Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
- The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
- 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…
- The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than…
- Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle