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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The real question for us as public managers is, 'How do we manage and balance all of the effects?
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself
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There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
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The plan, again, is to come back here. I'm not God. ... If another Katrina hits here and hits dead on here, what's going to happen? I don't know the answer to that question, but it's probably not going to be good. We've all got have our eyes open and we've all got to make the right decision.
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We've never been in a better position to handle this external environment than we are now.
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We want to be real investors, to have some percentage of it. You got to put your money where your mouth is. How much did I put in? A lot. A lot more than I expected.
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When the storm passes, the federal government has got assets and resources that we'll be deploying to help you. In the meantime, America will pray - pray for the health and safety of all our citizens.
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When those Coast Guard choppers, many of who were first on the scene, were pulling people off roofs, they didn't check the color of a person's skin,
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When we started in 1997, there were almost no prizes. In an effort to make it more viable we have pushed sponsors to offer more cash rewards.
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We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.
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We need to make sure everything is ready so we can sell tickets and promote it. We don't want to embarrass the city and have only 1,500 people show up.
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When the hiring manager asks for references, it's a signal the firm is interested in pursuing you as an employee. Wait until you are asked for your references; don't volunteer them.