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
justice fighter peace-and-justice
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
war drug would-be
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
faith confidence political
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
integrity truth-is strategy
Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
mental-illness illness knows
I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
pay negative election
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
war saws lucky
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
cancer war political
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
biblical empathy neighbor
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
people shut-up social
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
war order law
I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.
home america principles
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
country brother responsibility
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper...
dream war tired
Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.