"Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly……" — George Will
"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 or increasing taxes, will choose the latter."
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175 Quotes by George Will
George Will has 175 quotes on this site.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did,…
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it…
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible…
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of…
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral…
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the…
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's…
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More Addictive Quotes
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
— Graydon Carter
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
— Loni Anderson
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
— Marc Anthony
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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar.…
— Warren Buffett
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence.…
— Richard G. Scott
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Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless.…
— James E. Faust
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