Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George WillLeadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George WillCivilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'
George Will[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.
George Will