George Will Quotes

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

George Will

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

George Will

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

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

George Will

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

George Will

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

George Will

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