George Will Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.”

“A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”

“As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.”

“Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.”

“Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.”

“If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.”

“The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.”

“Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.”

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

“When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.”