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
diversity confusing style
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
jargon seldom stands
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
face half hope man please turn vain
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
conductors suggestive
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
african built country indigenous
The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
graduation commitment worthwhile-things
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
navy lasts united-states
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
democracies-have long people
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
texas long people
If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.
mass-destruction iraq wmd
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
predictions approach allowing
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
democracies-have people democracy
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
making-money rich investors
I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.