George Will citations

George Frederick Will est un journaliste, éditorialiste et écrivain américain, né le 4 mai 1941 à Champaign. Lauréat du prix Pulitzer du commentaire politique en 1977, il est surtout connu pour ses éditoriaux politiques conservateurs. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. mai 1941  •  Autres noms George Frederick Will
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“The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.”

George Will

Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy, Simon & Schuster (c. 1992), Chapter 1, p. 31 :
Contexte: Byrd [former Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia] rose to his current eminence from conditions of severe poverty, and he represents a poor state, so perhaps some of his grasping should be forgiven. Some, but not this egregious sort. His career has become a caricature of a particularly crass and cynical theory of representation. The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

“When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.”

George Will

Source: Column, February 26, 2014, "The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-the-liberal-agenda-is-being-good-to-liberals/2014/02/26/e600a0c4-9e4e-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html at washingtonpost.com'.

“Many of the words and numbers bandied by Obama and his administration may reflect an honest belief that the world is whatever well-intentioned people like them say about it. So, Obama's critics should reconsider their assumption that he is cynical. It is his sincerity that is scary.”

George Will

Column, February 7, 2014, &quot;President Obama&#x27;s Magic Words and Numbers&quot; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-president-obamas-magic-words-and-numbers/2014/02/07/220fbc04-8f76-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html at washingtonpost.com. <br class="br">2010s

“For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.”

George Will

Column, August 24, 2008, &quot;Little Rhetoric Riding Hood&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will082408.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s

“If, after the Foley episode – a maraschino cherry atop the Democrat’s delectable sundae of Republican miseries – the Democrats cannot gain 13 seats, they should go into another line of work.”

George Will

Column, October 5, 2006, &quot;What Goeth Before the Fall&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will100506.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s

“Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.”

George Will

Column, March 14, 2014, &quot;Democrats are making income inequality worse&quot; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-democrats-policies-make-income-inequality-worse/2014/03/14/97d5074e-aada-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html at washingtonpost.com <br class="br">2010s

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

George Will

The Leveling Wind: politics, the culture, and other news, 1990-1994 (c. 1994), Will, Viking; as cited in Quotable Quotes (1997), Editors of Reader’s Digest, Penguin : ISBN 1606525956
1990s

“A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.”

George Will

Column, December 23, 2007, &quot;The Gift Of Doing Very Little&quot; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122101922.html at washingtonpost.com. <br class="br">2000s

“Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.”

George Will

from a review of Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa (2003), as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (rev. 2005), ed. Rawson & Miner, Oxford University Press, p. 600: ISBN 0195168232
2000s

“The family is the primary transmitter of social capital – the values and character traits that enable people to seize opportunities. Family structure is a primary predictor of an individual's life chances, and family disintegration is the principal cause of the intergenerational transmission of poverty.”

George Will

Column, March 21, 2014, &quot; Paul Ryan was right – poverty is a cultural problem&quot; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-the-lefts-half-century-of-denial-over-poverty/2014/03/21/1aeaff4e-b049-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html at washingtonpost.com. <br class="br">2010s

“When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?"”

George Will

Notice a pattern here? <br class="br">Column, September 14, 2006, &quot;Dems Vs. Wal-mart&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will091406.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s

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

George Will

Quoted in A Ford Not A Lincoln (1975), Richard Reeves, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ch, 1 ; as cited by The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p. 707 ISBN 0231071949
1970s

“Taking offense has become America’s national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.”

George Will

Column, May 7, 2014, &quot;Thin skins and legislative prayer&quot; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-thin-skins-and-prayer-in-supreme-court-case/2014/05/07/a5049a64-d54c-11e3-8a78-8fe50322a72c_story.html at washingtonpost.com. <br class="br">2010s

“Capital is mobile. It goes where it is welcomed and stays where it is well-treated, so states compete to create tax and regulatory environments conducive to job creation. Liberals call this a "race to the bottom."”

George Will

Conservatives call it a race to rationality. <br class="br">Column, February 18, 2014, &quot;Breaking the grip of the unions&quot; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-breaking-the-grip-of-the-unions/2014/02/18/39beb794-98d4-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html at washingtonpost.com. <br class="br">2010s

“The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.”

George Will

Column, January 15, 2009, &quot;Of Judges, By Judges, For Judges&quot; http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will.html at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s

“The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.”

George Will

Column, April 12, 2001, &quot;PACs and McCain-Feingold&quot; http://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2001/04/12/pacs_and_mccain-feingold at townhall.com. <br class="br">2000s

“This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.”

George Will

Column, May 9, 1996, &quot;FDR&#x27;s memorial hides character&quot; http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-05-09/news/1996130096_1_memorial-felix-frankfurter-cigarette-holder at baltimoresun.com <br class="br">1990s

“When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.”

George Will

“Opinion: Biden’s Afghanistan policy shows the world a wobbly, impulsive U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/27/bidens-afghanistan-policy-shows-world-wobbly-impulsive-us/ The Washington Post, (Aug. 27, 2021) <br class="br">2021s

“The cultivation -- even celebration -- of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.”

George Will

Source: “Afflicted By Comfort” https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2004/01/11/afflicted-by-comfort/9aa0b1db-8b1f-4156-9bf9-8c9eb84ee6be/, The Washington Post, (January 11, 2004)

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