220 Quotes by George F. Will

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

Stalin’s henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

I’ve lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that’s a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Sports is the toy department of life.

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