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

From George Will

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

From George Will

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

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

From George Will

Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

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All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

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The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

From George Will

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

From George Will

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

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Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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