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In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
— George Will
Tags: own, lost, america, farmer

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The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.
— George Will
Tags: first, old, remember, election
Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
— George Will
Tags: victory, opportunity, health, history
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.
— George Will
Tags: born, government, people, freedom
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
— George Will
Tags: those, inside, childhood, business
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
— George Will
Tags: about, political, tradition, government
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