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
jobs successful done
I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.
winning breathing important
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
loyalty believe demand
I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.
halloween apology night
Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.
country real numbers
You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.
vocabulary vocabulary-words
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'
politics wells knows
Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.
selfish stupid intelligent
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
dog years white
In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.
men apathy indifference
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
secret clients essentials
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued.
night lasts privacy
Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
men ideas affair
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.
media impact vision
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.