15 Quotes & Sayings By George Will

George William Will is an American journalist, author, and political commentator. He has been a columnist for the Washington Post since 1980. George Will is a leading conservative pundit and commentator. His column appears in many major newspapers and magazines and he is a frequent guest on national television and radio talk shows. He is a political analyst for ABC News and is a regular guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week program Read more

In 2007, George Will won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, the first time the award had been given to a columnist. In 2006, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Commentary. In 2006, In 2006, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W.

Bush.

1
...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into. George Will
2
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. George Will
3
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. George Will
4
World War II was the last government program that really worked. George Will
5
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children. George Will
6
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did. George Will
7
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. George Will
8
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. George Will
9
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. George Will
10
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. George Will
11
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. George Will
12
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. George Will
13
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. George Will
14
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will