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George F. Will
American political columnist and writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
—George F. Will, American political columnist and writer, quoted in The New York Public Library Book of Twentieth Century American Quotations, Stephen Donadio ed., 1992

Posted on March 5, 2004 at 5:23 PM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
—George F. Will, American political columnist and writer

Posted on April 1, 2002 at 8:00 PM

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