Century Quote by George Will

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice…

— George Will

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

— George Will

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

— George Will

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

— George Will

Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we…

— George Will

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of…

— George Will

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests…

— George Will

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…

— George Will

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture…

— George Will

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

— George Will

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their…

— George Will

“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

— George Will