George F. Will
George F. 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
CityChampaign, IL
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Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
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Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds.
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Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of ""experts"" become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some ""they"" is manipulating ""us,"" using, among other dark arts, advertising.
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Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.
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We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
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It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.
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Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
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The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
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Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.
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World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue
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A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.
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The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.
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The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.