George Will Quotes about Politics

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

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

George Will

Thinking, Political, Politics

"A Ford, not a Lincoln". Book by Richard Reeves, 1975.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

George Will

People, Politics, Virtue

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

George Will

Political, Nerd, Politics

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

George Will

Believe, Politics, Seeing Is Believing

"Little Rhetoric Riding Hood". www.jewishworldreview.com. August 24, 2008.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

Political, Mediocrity, Politics

"Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality". Book by Vince Stone, 2009.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

George Will

Government, Suffering, Politics

"George Will: The manufactured crisis of sequester". www.washingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.