Famous Quotes / George F. Will
26 Quotations by George F. Will
- 1. A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi ...
- 2. Actually, there is only one "first question" of government, and it is "How should we live?" or "What ...
- 3. All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are "up to a ...
- 4. Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
- 5. Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many America ...
- 6. As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
- 7. Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
- 8. Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee me ...
- 9. Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee m ...
- 10. I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions ...
- 11. If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
- 12. It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
- 13. It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that withou ...
- 14. Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction ...
- 15. Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
- 16. Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t ...
- 17. Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country: President of the United States an ...
- 18. She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no t ...
- 19. Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
- 20. The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa ...