English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

George Will quotes

Journalist May 4, 1941

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. George Will
George Will quote: "Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It..."
Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. George Will
George Will quote: "Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a..."
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. George Will
George Will quote: "Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the..."
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. George Will
George Will quote: "Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain..."
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. George Will
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. George Will
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
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
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. George Will
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce? yes, announce? that Americans are sorely in need of more... George Will
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. George Will
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
George Will quote: "Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it."
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. George Will
George Will quote: "World War II was the last government program that really worked."
World War II was the last government program that really worked. George Will
George Will quote: "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are..."
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. George Will

Popular Author

Related Authors