“Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't m...” — George Will Quote

“Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.”

“Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.”

“The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.”

“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.”

“Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.”

“For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.”

“To be honest, I was the world's worst vegetarian. You see - I didn't really like vegetables very much. I'd spent most of my childhood terrified of them - horrid bland mushy things. It's only as an adult I realise that part of the problem is my mother's cooking - she hates using salt and has a tendency to overboil things. Thanks, Mum.”

“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.”

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”

“Sport has been so good to me. The amount of basketball I've played over my lifetime, ran track, played football, played organized adult softball for 30-plus years.”

“After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.”