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
drug today crime
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
thinking addiction drug
There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.
interesting drug interesting-things
You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.
song drug musical
What happened during the previews of Taboo [ musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that . . ." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
drug clubs culture
Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.
drug half world
After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
alcohol drug drugs-and-alcohol
Everybody funny, now you funny too.
drinking alcohol drug
If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.
drug-use order cracks
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available. Initially I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment. And I would foster social opprobrium of drug use.
war lying drug
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
drug machines surrender
The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.
self drug had-enough
If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.
long people drug
All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.
talking drug firsts
Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.