George Will

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

— George Will

#being #constantly #either #nice #part

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ↗

— George Will

#baseball #canyon #created #equal #game

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. ↗

— George Will

#central #central government #country #government #hamilton

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ↗

— George Will

#america #combines #committee #football #meetings

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. ↗

— George Will

#decide #issues #voters #who #will

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

— George Will

#audience #his #less #politician #reveal

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ↗

— George Will

#conservatives #define #oppose #terms #themselves

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

#among #away #gain #get #inflict

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

World War II was the last government program that really worked. ↗

— George Will

#government #government program #ii #last #program