George Will Quotes

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will

Nice, Either, Pessimist

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will

True, Game, Baseball

World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will

History, War, Government

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

Football, Two, America

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will

Good, Public, Mediocrity

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 so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

Political, Sacrifice, Means

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will

Politics, Themselves, Define

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will

Politics, Decide, Issues

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'
George Will

Parents, Give, Guns

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

Words, Less, Audience

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will

Leadership, Pain, Away

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will

Nation, Language, Normal

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
George Will

Friends, Congress, Elected

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George Will

Government, Strong, Live

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will

Business, Childhood, Inside

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will

History, Future, Arriving

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will

Often, Perfection, Pursuit

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will

Food, Society, Mind

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 Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will

Work, Freedom, Live

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
George Will

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
George Will

American, Admirable, Excesses

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
George Will

Freedom, Means, Behave

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
George Will

Job, Lives, Gone

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
George Will

American, Cheese, Apple

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Education, Religion, Politics

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Type: Journalist

Born: May 4, 1941

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