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
taken government order
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
hurt responsibility people
The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.
country son years
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.
done cost hunger
We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
evil politician illness
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
children school lunch
I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.
winning thinking discredit-you
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
dark track age
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing...
good-life presidential campaigns
You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
views enemy neighbor
It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
war fighting peers
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
regret war guy
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
choices healthy everyday
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
thinking iran iraq
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.