George Will Quotes About Politics
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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.
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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
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For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.
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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.
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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
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Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
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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.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
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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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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
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