George Will President Quotations

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.