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George Will
stated on May 31, 2015 in a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":

"We spend more money on lobbying than we do on campaigns."

By Jon Greenberg • June 1, 2015
George Will
stated on September 21, 2014 in a panel on "Fox News Sunday":

"Last week's three most-viewed television programs were Sunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football."

By Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2014
George Will
stated on November 10, 2013 in comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday":

Says 18 states and the District of Columbia have voted Democratic in six consecutive presidential elections.

By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2013
George Will
stated on April 3, 2011 in a roundtable segment on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"We lost more jobs in this great recession than the last four recessions combined."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011
George Will
stated on March 13, 2011 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":

Federal spending is "all discretionary, other than interest on the national debt. Social Security is discretionary. We have the discretion to change the law. Same is true with Medicare and Medicaid."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2011
George Will
stated on February 20, 2011 in ABC's "This Week":

If Wisconsin's governor cuts perquisites as much as he plans to do, "it would still leave (workers) better off than their private sector" counterparts.

By Robert Farley • February 21, 2011
George Will
stated on August 1, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":

During the recession, "the consumer in his native perversity has begun to save. The savings rate is now 6.2 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2010
George Will
stated on May 9, 2010 in a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week:

Greece "has a GDP the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."

By Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2010
George Will
stated on June 18, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:

Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined.

By Catharine Richert • June 29, 2009
George Will
stated on March 24, 2009 in a column published by the Washington Post and other news organizations.:

"Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets."

By Bill Adair • April 9, 2009