George Will

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. ↗

— George Will

#congress #elected #friends #looting #raid

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

#because #constitute #elite #fascinate #good

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. ↗

— George Will

#childhood #frequently #inside #solemn #those

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ↗

— George Will

#arriving #future #way

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ↗

— George Will

#improvement #often #perfection #pursuit

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

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food

All politicians are to some extent salesmen. ↗

— George Will

#politicians #some

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

#american #excesses #many #most

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly. ↗

— George Will

#behave #foolishly #freedom #freedom means #means