George Will Quotations | Page 3

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

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?