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
enterprise trade free-trade
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
uganda presidential debt
When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
dictator
The only good dictator is a dead one.
evil genius able
To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.
life-and-death radio
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
looks records dry
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
party style democracy
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.
peace past men
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
damn
Where did all these damn indians come from?
handle
The Seventh can handle anything it meets.
wild-places needs wilderness
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
party men people
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
happiness mind world
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
veterans-day military war
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.