George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
space work-out mind
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
political liberty libertarian
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
illinois chicago fans
I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.
change running thinking
I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.
agency government law
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
issues political voting
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
government years important
Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.
mean sacrifice class
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
change future history
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
baseball thinking trivia
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
inspirational funny nice
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
dog gathering lap
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
done
What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.
spiritual children tests
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.