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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Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.
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American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses the flag, as the Democratic party did basically from 1972 through the Iran hostage crisis, is in trouble.
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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
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For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing.
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So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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Politics attracts the glib, the fast talker and the con artist. It's a natural place for those who think fast on their feet.
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It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.
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...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.