All George Will Quotes
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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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.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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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.
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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World War II was the last government program that really worked.
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History
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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.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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