Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

— George F. Will

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

— George F. Will

The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common language. We all have, to some extent, a complex, sometimes adversarial, relationship with our physical selves. And I more than most people know that it is correct to say,'I have a body.' There is my body, and then there is ME, trying to make it behave.

— George F. Will

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

— George F. Will

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

— George F. Will

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

— George F. Will

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

— George F. Will

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

— George F. Will

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

— George F. Will

Time was when much of layering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elite Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

— George F. Will