Robert Pollock

:"For the 19th century Scottish poet, see Robert Pollok; for the Dynasty writer, see Robert Mason Pollock"

Robert L. Pollock is an editorial writer and Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member.

Biography

Robert Pollock was born in Buffalo, New York. Pollock joined the "Wall Street Journal Europe" in Brussels as an editorial page writer in 1995. He moved to "Wall Street Journal"'s headquarters in New York in 2000 as an assistant features editor. In 2002 Pollock became an editorial writer and in 2005 he joined the Editorial Board. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale University. Pollock was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 2003 for his editorials on the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its delaying of cancer drug approval. Pollock makes frequent appearances on television shows such as that on CNBC and Fox News as well as radio appearances on WABC.

Quotations

* "Much of what Iran has been doing, they would be allowed to do out in the open. But they've been lying to the international community." [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/journaleditorialreport/091704/transcript_oneonone.html]
* "Ahmed Chalabi understands what comes next for Iraq" [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003458]
* "All that means is decreasing -- all that means is decreasing the length of some breaks from tours of duty and increasing the lengths of some tours of duty. That's not a hard thing to do when you've got 1.4 million troops." [http://mediamatters.org/items/200612180004?src=newsbox-atrios.blogspot.com]

External links

* [http://www.opinionjournal.com/bios/bio_pollock.html "WSJ" bio]
* [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x15020.xml UCLA Anderson School of Management - Gerald Loeb Awards - Robert Pollock bio]