George F. Will Quotes

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if you're not playing by the rules, you're taking a big risk.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?

From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.

If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.