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
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Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.
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Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
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We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous,
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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
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Bob showed not only a care for reforming these laws and improving the juvenile justice system, but also taking ideas -- there were just a few -- that the other side had to work in a very bipartisan manner to come up with these changes,
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Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new song or something, but this became the perfect vehicle because we always had a thing between the four of us that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren'
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Here we'd like to think they can start to think about the ideas we're teaching, but their main job is to perform on the field.
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We're concerned about good ideas and bad ideas.
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I firmly believe that reading is essential to developing writing skills. Reading exposes the reader to the ideas of the authors, not only to varying subject matter content, but also to various styles and techniques for presenting the content.
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The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas that had already been used. I remember the first time I spotted Leigh Bowery and Trojan parading around in clubs: They were in their "Pakis from Outer Space" look, and the makeup was quite similar to one of my old looks, because I was quite fond of wearing blue, green, or yellow foundation, and so I was pretty dismissive of them at first.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It felt like you had this naïve idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.
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There can be no minority and majority in armed forces. These ideas are working to weaken the forces and break their morale.
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The government is taking SOA seriously. We have been for two years. There seems to be a serious convergence of ideas and commercial momentum.