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Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.
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Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George Will
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We have far more to fear from swift than from torpid government.
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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.
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Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.
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The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.
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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
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Hillary Clinton hasn't created a job.
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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.
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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.
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Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
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Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
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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