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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I think the truth is and the secret to this is in a way of trying to not be polarizing and I find that people on the left and right are - it's an incredibly polarized time. In general we're trying to find things that we can agree on and one of them for me is we have to agree on the idea that we're allowed to question authority.
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I think the women's business is much tougher than anything else they have been in. It doesn't seem like a natural extension to me. They have begun to get a better selection of merchandise and the business is getting better, but they don't have a real track record here yet.
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I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs. Once you accept this point, you may be able to develop a more rational approach to the problem.
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I think the monsters today are all CG and look beautiful and move perfectly... I don't think that they've lost it, I just think they're bigger and more grotesque, the bugs in Starship Troopers or Godzilla, whatever.
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It is appropriate to meet in a church because today we're talking about what is one of the clearly most deeply moral challenges of our time.
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It is a shining example of what 99% of PFI-funded buildings are not doing.
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It is always great to get an award - particularly when it talks about a lifetime achievement, ... There's something about starting and keeping going, rather than a one-off spike.
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I think there's going to be a change in the housing stock based on one fact -- there's very little land left.
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I think there's a confusion in Moscow, which is not really good news for them, especially on the eve of the G8 summit,
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I think there must be great concern that this will descend into a spiral of violence and potentially into civil war.
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I think the question on most people's minds is what are they going to do to be able to maintain the surplus and not overspend so that we move back into a deficit situation.
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Jeremy has power, a good arm and runs better than most catchers I have ever seen.
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Japan is closed today so the market is taking the U.S. as a reference. But there's not much activity because investors are taking a wait-and-see strategy ahead of Greenspan's speech.
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January sales were better than we expected at the beginning of the month. We expected them to be down 15 to 20 percent.