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
democracy internet free-speech
The case for democracy is not esthetic.
democracy voters protect
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
promise democracy voters
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
law democracy judicial-review
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
essence liberty democracy
The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
country democracy sap
Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.
class democracy inequality
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
democracy separation frustrating
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.
country political democracy
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
democracy viagra election
Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
thinking democracy chapters
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
people democracy manipulation
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
people democracy
Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.
political democracy investing
We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.