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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will -
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends.
George Will
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will -
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
George Will -
The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
George Will -
We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
George Will -
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.
George Will -
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
George Will
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Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
George Will -
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will -
Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
George Will -
Hillary Clinton hasn't created a job.
George Will -
Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state's most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.
George Will -
When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
George Will