George F. Will Quotes

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.

As a Democrat in a red state, I often spend days among crowds where there are almost no Democratic voters in sight. I listen to them, work with them and try to persuade them.

I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.