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
years office training
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
illinois arbitrary death-penalty
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
thinking media texas
I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.
people drug majority
In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
errors guilt death-penalty
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
war mountain sides
On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.
music two america
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.
music writing self
I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.
communication function mere
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
believe reality body
I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
order musician figures
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.
inspiration contemplating
We become what we habitually contemplate
meaningful lost
Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.
essentials theater
I am essential to the theater,