220 Quotes by George F. Will

The State of the Union has become, under presidents of both parties, a political pep rally degrading to everyone. The judiciary and uniformed military should never attend. And Congress, by hosting a spectacle so monarchical in structure (which is why Thomas Jefferson sent his thoughts to Congress in writing) deepens the diminishment of the legislative branch as a mostly reactive servant of an overbearing executive.

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.