George Will Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

“Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.”

“The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.”

“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.”

“I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.”

“World War II was the last government program that really worked.”

“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”

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

“Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.”