George Will

Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.

Progressives understand that their program for a government-centered society becomes more plausible the more people believe that work—individual striving—is unavailing. Government grows as fatalism grows, and fatalism grows as progressivism inculcates in people the demoralizing—make that de-moralizing—belief that they are victims of circumstances.

If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.

George Will: That's right.

For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

Capital is mobile. It goes where it is welcomed and stays where it is well-treated, so states compete to create tax and regulatory environments conducive to job creation. Liberals call this a "race to the bottom." Conservatives call it a race to rationality.

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

The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.