302 Quotes by George Will

American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

The homosexual subculture based on brief, barren assignations is, in part, a dark mirror of the sex-obsessed majority culture.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.

The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.