George Will Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

  George Will

  Thinking, Political, Politics

  "A Ford, not a Lincoln". Book by Richard Reeves, 1975.

• 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.

  George Will

  Mean, Sacrifice, Class

• The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

  George Will

  War, 4th Of July, Blessing

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

• Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

  George Will

  Issues, Political, Voting

• All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

  George Will

  Political, Important, Four

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  George Will

  Dog, Politics, Sound

  George F. Will (1986). “The morning after: American successes and excesses, 1981-1986”, Free Pr

• 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.

  George Will

  Blue Dress, Dresses, Complaining

• I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.

  George Will

  Government, Political, Term Limits

• 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.

  George Will

  Mean, Gun, Trying

  "Flashback: Stephanopoulos Scolded Critic of Bonior and McDermott". www.newsbusters.org. March 26, 2008.

• [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.

  George Will

  Years, Skills, Mind

• The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

  George Will

  People, Politics, Virtue

• For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

  George Will

  Believe, Politics, Seeing Is Believing

  "Little Rhetoric Riding Hood". www.jewishworldreview.com. August 24, 2008.

• 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.

  George Will

  Government, Suffering, Politics

  "George Will: The manufactured crisis of sequester". www.washingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

• [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

  George Will

  Top Down, Tissues, Coercion

• Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

  George Will

  Independent, Political, Risk

• Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

  George Will

  Political, Mediocrity, Politics

  "Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality". Book by Vince Stone, 2009.

• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

  George Will

  Political, Nerd, Politics

• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

  George Will

  Education, Passion, Purpose

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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