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And in February, machete-wielding assailants murdered opposition politician Godfrey Luena outside his home.
In short, Merkel has done more to damage the EU than any living politician, while constantly proclaiming her passion for “the European project.”
When a Republican politician compares US property taxes with the Holocaust, as one Senate candidate did in 2014, the mass murder of Jews is trivialized to the extent of becoming meaningless.
There are other echoes of our darkest history in contemporary political bombast, which a few decades ago would still have cast any politician who used it to the margins.
But what is honesty or dishonesty in a politician?
Is it possible for a politician to be honest at all?
Kant's second type is the moral politician , who rejects cynical pragmatism but does not succumb to naive moralising.
An honest politician is someone who regards politics as a tool for achieving the common good.
An honest politician, in short, pursues a pragmatism built on principles, on the courage to say unpleasant things, but always with a constructive attitude.
The toughest test of an honest politician comes when he or she must defend ideas that are unpopular but right.
However, only the dishonest politician equates politics exclusively with popularity.
At the same time, a moral politician never succeeds single-handedly in ensuring the common good.
So I know that no theory, no amount of analysis, can free a politician from bouts of soul-searching, from troubling his or her conscience with questions about what is and what is not honest when confronting political choices.
Above all else, the honest politician willingly shoulders this burden.
And indeed, The Ordinary Virtues by the former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff, which grew from a Carnegie study, indicates that even in the world’s most desolate and lawless corners, individuals have a strong sense of their own rights and also, if to a lesser extent, of the importance of treating those close to them with decency.
Put crudely, it is more beneficial politically for an opposition politician to claim that his country’s problems are self-induced, caused by domestic profligacy, and have little to do with global financial failures.
Instead of dealing with these concrete threats to Japan, Hatoyama continues to act like an opposition politician by attacking the LDP and undermining one of the proudest achievements of LDP rule, the deep and trusting alliance with the US.
A pension is a long-term commitment from the state – and, ultimately, the taxpayer – to an individual politician.
Japan’s chief industrialist, Akio Morita, the chairman of Sony, and the right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara gave a series of speeches that were collected and published in 1986 as a book called The Japan that Can Say No.
No doubt special circumstances accompanied that vote, but the effort which the country's most respected and powerful politician expended in order to gain the backing of Germany's parliament (as well as his coalition partners, the Greens) should be a warning to other Western governments not to leave their publics behind as they engage in the tough, multi-year campaign against the planners and executors of international terrorism.
In a recent interview, the politician and religious leader Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman spoke frankly about Kashmir: “Obviously, we are in favor of a political solution….Things have changed so much.
Pakistan’s embattled president, Pervez Musharraf, once declared, “I am not at all a politician.
None, of course, wanted to be a politician – and, to Bono’s surprise, none wanted to be a rock star.
Churchill was a politician of principle who, like Peel, fought against his own party and, unlike Peel, survived to go on to yet greater political triumph, in the epic battle against the Nazis.
But Schmidt would never have imagined that there would come a day when there would be no politician in search of a vision check.
It probably seems hypocritical for a Western politician to criticize emerging powers for untrustworthiness, at a time when the president of the United States – once the leader of the West – is the shockingly undependable Donald Trump.
The Battle for RussiaPARIS – When I heard the news about the assassination of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, I was reminded of a conversation I once had with a Soviet dignitary before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The fusion of an irresponsible right-wing campaign and economic stagnation made Poland’s “wandering” electorate shift in the direction of the PiS, whose success was mostly due to its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, currently the right’s most prominent politician.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is an intelligent politician who understands the link between currency stability and political success.
While Park derives some of her power from her family pedigree, she has proven to be an astute and seasoned politician – one who climbed the Grand National Party’s leadership ladder over the last two decades to emerge as a national figure.
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