George Will quotes

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.