“Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.”

American conservative writer and political commentator

George Frederick Will is an American conservative writer and political commentator. He is known for his long-running columns in The Washington Post and for his commentary on NewsNation. Will has built a public career around political writing and analysis. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977, and in 1986 The Wall Street Journal described him as “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America.”