Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
George WillThe most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
George WillBaseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George WillBaseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
George WillNationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
George Will