George Will
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CARL PALADINO ANN COULTER CHUCK TODD There have been times when Democratic presidents picked Republican Fed chairmen and vice versa. I do... ALLEN JACOBSON The Republican team is killing the Democratic team in that week by a margin of three-to-two. But the... E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ JIMMY CARTER The front-runner in the Republican party will be John McCain, based on his performance at the conven... SCOTT REED Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any con... EVAN SAYET KEN LIVINGSTONE GAIL COLLINS [Miller fired back:] Whenever I left the governor's office in January of 1999, the Democratic Party ... ZELL MILLER JON MEACHAM In the immigration studies, we find that anxiety-driven trust has a partisan dimension. Democrats an... BETHANY ALBERTSON Michigan Democrats renew their call for a fairer and more diverse presidential nominating process fo... MARK BREWER ED ROLLINS GORE VIDAL We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never all... JOHN KERRY It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either kille... JAMES MORCAN PAT ROBERTSON JOHN RALSTON SAUL We need Democrats that support democratic values, not Democrats who help the Republican agenda. JENNIFER LAWLESS The Democratic Party will, one of these days, stop resisting the philosophy that President Kennedy b... JUDE WANNISKI They have a very attractive candidate and the Republican Party will put a lot of money into this rac... LARRY HUFFORD I guess to be a unanimous pick with J.J. seems only fitting since the two of us have been followed s... ADAM MORRISON RON DESANTIS They ran a Republican campaign in a Democratic state, and they saw that yesterday in the results. ALLAN HOFFENBLUM We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL NIGEL HAMILTON JOHN F. KENNEDY MIKE PENCE I think it speaks volumes how lost the Democratic Party has become in Texas and how dispirited Democ... DEAN BARKLEY As Wyatt explains, it's clearly John F. Kennedy. But he also was reminded of Robert Kennedy when he ... ANN SCANLON LYNDON B. JOHNSON He's really going back to his Democratic roots - which is very significant, because it shows where t... LOWELL FELD JON MEACHAM DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN I am the only candidate with a proven history of grassroots involvement in the Republican party. And... DALE MORAN It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America. PAUL BEGALA Both the Democratic and the Republican parties stand for equality of all people. We have no room in ... WARREN RUDMAN BILLY SUNDAY John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al G... CRAIG KILBORN BARACK OBAMA been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and J... ZELL MILLER MARIANNE WILLIAMSON HARRY S TRUMAN I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... SEX AND THE CITY I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in ... ELLIS KRAUSS MICHAEL IGNATIEFF HARRY S TRUMAN The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. JAMES CARVILLE ROBERT NOVAK I trust that my colleagues are searching their hearts and reading the constitution as they decide th... MARK LENO ANN COULTER Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and... JOE KLEIN FREDERICK DOUGLASS MICHAEL MANDELBAUM Koizumi beat up on the old LDP and cast the Democratic Party as anti-reform, ... The Democrats shoul... YASUNORI SONE We will have two deputies from the Smith County Sheriff's Department who will be here. We have secur... GARY BARBER TODD AKIN Things have changed, and improved. We are much more viable as a party with a Republican governor tha... BETH GAINES RONALD KESSLER JOHN HOWARD As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitat... FLORENCIO ABAD I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe t... JOHN MCCAIN C. JOYBELL C. FREDERIC RAPHAEL MICHAEL KORDA CAMILLE PAGLIA JAY LENO We've enjoyed very pleasant cooperation with the Democratic Party and other pro-democrats in the leg... AUDREY EU Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administ... DAVID HACKWORTH So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure b... CHARLES EVERS CAMILLE PAGLIA Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intel... VINCENT BUGLIOSI Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregna... RON FOURNIER HARRY S TRUMAN I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I belie... JOHN MCCAIN Over the course of the past several years, of waging successive, successful proof-of-principle fight... CODY JONES The Republican incumbent starts her re-election year with commanding leads over either of her likely... DOUGLAS SCHWARTZ As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegianc... JACKIE SPEIER There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents sta... ROTIMI SETH MACFARLANE I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton -... JACK LEW The actions of Democrats ensured this victory for California families. The Democratic Party in Calif... ERIC STERN We've had 11 previous presidents (since then), Democrats, Republicans. They faced wars, they faced r... JASON FURMAN
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WILL Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. GEORGE F. WILL Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will sei... GEORGE F. WILL If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys prec... GEORGE F. WILL Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. GEORGE F. WILL Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. GEORGE F. WILL The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and s... GEORGE F. WILL Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee m... GEORGE F. WILL We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. GEORGE F. WILL We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the un... GEORGE F. WILL The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: N... GEORGE F. WILL The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa... GEORGE F. WILL It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet. GEORGE F. WILL Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French. GEORGE F. WILL This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle. GEORGE F. WILL Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t... GEORGE F. WILL Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now ... GEORGE F. WILL The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic o... GEORGE F. WILL There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. GEORGE F. WILL Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. GEORGE F. WILL Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading ... GEORGE F. WILL The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a... GEORGE F. WILL Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions. GEORGE F. WILL When America uses power, it makes people angry, but it gets their attention. GEORGE F. WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi... GEORGE F. WILL You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you l... GEORGE F. WILL This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant GEORGE F. WILL Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction... GEORGE F. WILL Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an... GEORGE F. WILL The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron... GEORGE F. WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked. GEORGE F. WILL Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings. GEORGE F. WILL A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "l... GEORGE F. WILL Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. GEORGE F. WILL Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues ... GEORGE F. WILL Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of str... GEORGE F. WILL You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of Ame... GEORGE F. WILL The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. GEORGE F. WILL Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all ... GEORGE F. WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. GEORGE F. WILL All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house M... GEORGE F. WILL Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique ste... GEORGE F. WILL Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. GEORGE F. WILL Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. GEORGE F. WILL Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost eve... GEORGE F. WILL Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent. GEORGE F. WILL Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot... GEORGE F. WILL Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue. GEORGE F. WILL Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes me... GEORGE F. WILL American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses... GEORGE F. WILL The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism GEORGE F. WILL The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. GEORGE F. WILL Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m... GEORGE F. WILL Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The gove... GEORGE F. WILL Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering ... GEORGE F. WILL Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now. GEORGE F. WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. GEORGE F. WILL Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself. GEORGE F. WILL Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an... GEORGE F. WILL Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee m... GEORGE F. WILL WILL FERRELL WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL ROGERS WILL ROGERS WILL SMITH WILL DURANT WILL ROGERS WILL ROGERS WILL ROGERS I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD. WILL PACKER WILL SMITH WILL DURANT WILL DURANT WILL SMITH WILL ROGERS WILL SELF WILL SMITH WILL SMITH WILL SMITH I am the black sheep of my family. 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