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born 1941 United States
George Frederick Will (born 4 May 1941) is an American columnist, journalist, and author.
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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.
Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
A Ford Not A Lincoln (1975)
If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.
For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990)
When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.
The cultivation -- even celebration -- of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
In the immediate aftermath of the heroic rescue of soldiers from Dunkirk, Winston Churchill addressed the British as adults, reminding them that ‘wars are not won by evacuations.’
If, after the Foley episode – a maraschino cherry atop the Democrat’s delectable sundae of Republican miseries – the Democrats cannot gain 13 seats, they should go into another line of work.
When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, economic science, social science — says, ‘The debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things. It’s that the debate is raging and he’s losing it.
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
a review of Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa (2003)
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.