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
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.
moving law care
I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.
thinking political politics
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
clinton
Hillary Clinton hasn't created a job.
mean citizens world
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
gun boys ducks
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'