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Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Will
George Will Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. In the big inning, God created ...
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
The First Amendment ... begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.