When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, ec — George Will

"Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into Americas political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce — yes, announce — that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by . . . liberals."

"If, after the Foley episode – a maraschino cherry atop the Democrat’s delectable sundae of Republican miseries – the Democrats cannot gain 13 seats, they should go into another line of work."

"The Obama administrations agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administrations central activity – the political allocation of wealth and opportunity – is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.”"

"Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity."

"A politicians words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."

"When liberals presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "Whats the Matter With Liberals Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "Whats the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?"