George F. Will Quotes

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.

… the science of government is an experimental science, and that, like all other experimental sciences, it is generally in a state of progression. No man is so obstinate an admirer of the old times as to deny that medicine, surgery, botany, chemistry, engineering, navigation, are better understood now than in any former age. We conceive that it is the same with political science

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

I am a political animal.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.