George F. Will quotes
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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.
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.
All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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.
In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outbursts of violence.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.
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!"
Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
They define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
They seem to have a license to lie.
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
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.