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'm only looking at it in the context of what it does for my company.
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Investors are quite bullish on Hutchison and Cheung Kong and the role they will have in the Vodafone and Mannesmann deal.
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If you have the rule of law, then you're going to get investment in factories. You have to assure or give a sense of assurance to investors in direct investments that they will be fairly treated and that their property rights are respected.
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My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than another doesn't necessarily suggest some major weakness or anything other than a continuing effort to adjust the case to what appears to be the most favorable theory,
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I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.
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The judgement is very significant. It shows that the law works.
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I think that this time of the year, the athletes are fatigued. They have gone through a long, grueling season already, and I think the home-ice advantage is even more of an edge than it is during the regular season. Especially when you are considering a series and everything that's on the line, I think the home-ice advantage is so much more of a factor now than it is during the regular season.
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Guaranteed, it's going to happen. It's not if, it's when. And when it happens, the key thing to remember is -- don't blame the shark.
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I often think about how my life would have been different had I declined the offer to be appointed to the Senate and stayed on the federal bench.
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It is not difficult to stop the crime, everybody knows which doctors are doing it in any town or any village. So this is public knowledge where it is happening. But somehow the civil society organizations do not give it adequate priority in terms of stopping the crime, they are not seeing it as genocide.
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It's been mass chaos, ... trying to play everybody without sacrificing continuity and momentum.
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I realize that these folks have got a cause but they hurt the smaller retailers. The boycott hurts them worse than anybody.
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It's still fresh in my mind. It wasn't that long ago that we were playing for a championship in 2000. It was an exciting event, an exciting time. For us to play on a stage like that, it was definitely a dream come true. It felt like we belonged there.
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A friend had an airplane. I went for a ride and it turned into a passion, ... My family has flown and camped everywhere from the Florida Keys to 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle.