Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
George Will
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
Columnist
Journalist
Champaign
Illinois
George F. Will
George Frederick Will
Understood
Effectively
Protect
Representatives
Democracy
Increasingly
American
Reverse
Quaintly
Voters
Reverses
Drawn
Districts
Pick
Incumbents
Picks
Legislative
More quotes by George Will
Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.
George Will
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
George Will
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
George Will
America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.
George Will
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
George Will
The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
George Will
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.
George Will
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
George Will
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will
Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, Necessitous men are not free men.
George Will
It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.
George Will
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.
George Will
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
George Will
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.
George Will
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
George Will
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'
George Will
I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
George Will
Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.
George Will
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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
