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
nice worry constituents
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
war say-anything vietnam
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
party thinking average
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
running nostalgia presidency
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
war two iraq
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
europe oil yards
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
hands years humanity
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.
truth lying thinking
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
running men politics
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
girl country school
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
eye cutting people
I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.
white house presidential
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
united-states world able
I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
believe promise accepting
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.