All George Will Quotes
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
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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!"
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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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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.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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