All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a ...
GEORGE WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE WILL Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE WILL Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committ...
GEORGE WILL Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE WILL The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE WILL We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE WILL It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE WILL It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that withou...
GEORGE WILL She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no t...
GEORGE WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa...
GEORGE WILL The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE WILL Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
GEORGE WILL Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction...
GEORGE WILL Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE WILL Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE WILL Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE WILL Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many America...
GEORGE WILL Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind...
GEORGE WILL I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions ...
GEORGE WILL If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
GEORGE WILL Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern politica...
GEORGE WILL Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media...
GEORGE WILL Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes me...
GEORGE WILL Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar wi...
GEORGE WILL A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible &#...
GEORGE WILL Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has be...
GEORGE WILL Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marve...
GEORGE WILL Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meeting...
GEORGE WILL Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will sei...
GEORGE WILL Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation o...
GEORGE WILL Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
GEORGE WILL America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the ...
GEORGE WILL The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colo...
GEORGE WILL Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneou...
GEORGE WILL Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally...
GEORGE WILL Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning,...
GEORGE WILL Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pai...
GEORGE WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks abou...
GEORGE WILL Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statute...
GEORGE WILL Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their...
GEORGE WILL Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands th...
GEORGE WILL I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Wh...
GEORGE WILL If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live...
GEORGE WILL The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candid...
GEORGE WILL The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
GEORGE WILL Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all ...
GEORGE WILL Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approx...
GEORGE WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence ...
GEORGE WILL Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a...
GEORGE WILL The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state...
GEORGE WILL If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and h...
GEORGE WILL The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
GEORGE WILL Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE WILL Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingl...
GEORGE WILL Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
GEORGE WILL Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and ...
GEORGE WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE WILL Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the mor...
GEORGE WILL I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to th...
GEORGE WILL Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state...
GEORGE WILL I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, i...
GEORGE WILL Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents bee...
GEORGE WILL Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
GEORGE WILL In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped Amer...
GEORGE WILL Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
GEORGE WILL Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it l...
GEORGE WILL Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts wit...
GEORGE WILL When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merit...
GEORGE WILL Forever seeking Archimedean levers for prying the world in directions they prefer, progressives say ...
GEORGE WILL I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost....
GEORGE WILL The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
GEORGE F. WILL Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
GEORGE F. WILL Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will sei...
GEORGE F. WILL If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys prec...
GEORGE F. WILL Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE F. WILL Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
GEORGE F. WILL The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and s...
GEORGE F. WILL Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE F. WILL We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the un...
GEORGE F. WILL The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: N...
GEORGE F. WILL The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa...
GEORGE F. WILL It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE F. WILL Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.
GEORGE F. WILL This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.
GEORGE F. WILL Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE F. WILL Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now ...
GEORGE F. WILL The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic o...
GEORGE F. WILL There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
GEORGE F. WILL Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
GEORGE F. WILL Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading ...
GEORGE F. WILL The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a...
GEORGE F. WILL Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
GEORGE F. WILL When America uses power, it makes people angry, but it gets their attention.
GEORGE F. WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE F. WILL You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you l...
GEORGE F. WILL This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant
GEORGE F. WILL Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction...
GEORGE F. WILL Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE F. WILL The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE F. WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.
GEORGE F. WILL A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "l...
GEORGE F. WILL Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
GEORGE F. WILL Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues ...
GEORGE F. WILL Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of str...
GEORGE F. WILL You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of Ame...
GEORGE F. WILL The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
GEORGE F. WILL Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all ...
GEORGE F. WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE F. WILL All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house M...
GEORGE F. WILL Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique ste...
GEORGE F. WILL Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
GEORGE F. WILL Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
GEORGE F. WILL Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost eve...
GEORGE F. WILL Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.
GEORGE F. WILL Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE F. WILL Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
GEORGE F. WILL Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes me...
GEORGE F. WILL American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses...
GEORGE F. WILL The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism
GEORGE F. WILL The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE F. WILL Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The gove...
GEORGE F. WILL Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering ...
GEORGE F. WILL Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.
GEORGE F. WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE F. WILL Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.
GEORGE F. WILL Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an...
GEORGE F. WILL Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANT Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.
WILL PACKER I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as try...
WILL SMITH Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANT We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANT And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping...
WILL SMITH Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some...
WILL SELF I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane o...
WILL SMITH I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th...
WILL SMITH It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I coul...
WILL SMITH I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. ...
WILL POULTER It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent...
WILL SELF One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern ner...
WILL SELF The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wan...
WILL FERRELL I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran t...
WILL MCDONOUGH When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And...
WILL FERRELL I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in th...
WILL POULTER Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that th...
WILL POULTER My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia...
WILL HOBBS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS Joy comes from using your potential.
WILL SCHULTZ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
WILL CARLETON But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, t...
WILL CARLETON The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of busi...
WILL CARLETON Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the ga...
WILL MCDONOUGH I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious...
WILL SMITH