"Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly……" — George Will
"Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished."
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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 Bright Quotes
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more…
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
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I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy…
— Ernest Borgnine
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You…
— Anthony Bourdain
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing…
— Madeleine Albright
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it…
— Michael N. Castle
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
— John Cleese
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