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Compare Park to Corazon Aquino, who, when elected President of the Philippines, famously remarked that she was simply a housewife, not a professional politician or an experienced leader.
Every politician, whether liberal or conservative, wants to move forward, not backward.
At any rate, one should not write off prematurely a politician of such vision and ambition.
At the WEF in Incheon, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi called for a mass popular movement demanding that education be placed prominently on the agenda of every politician running for election, at all levels of government.
For, despite the rampant scandals, “national Silvio” (“Il Silvio Nazionale”) remains by far Italy’s most popular and successful politician (though his approval ratings have now dipped below the 50% mark in opinion polls for the first time since his second return to the premiership in 2008).
The former cabaret singer who became one of the richest businessman in the world, has also managed to become Italy’s most powerful politician – and one of the world’s most colorful.
It may be trendy for an Italian politician to flaunt his Mediterranean macho image, but that image becomes hard to stomach when the prime minister launches a campaign to eradicate street prostitution, with possible jail sentences for clients, while sleeping with paid escorts.
In Thailand, almost every politician or official had his hands in the pocket of some bank or business; every bank had officials in its pockets, too.
Since November 2011, Italy has been led not by a politician, but by an academic economist and a former European Union commissioner, Mario Monti.
Anti-Zionism takes a nasty turn to anti-Semitism when it conflates Jews with Israelis – for example, when the British Liberal Democratic politician David Ward criticized “the Jews” for inflicting horrors on the Palestinians.
One modern politician, in particular, has been effective in placing nervousness about energy supply at the center of a new political vision.
Like Wilson, Trump also gained some fans simply by virtue of a personality that is atypical for a politician.
But Yeltsin has lost most of his general popularity and prime minister, Chernomyrdin, remains a clumsy public politician, in spite of obvious improvements in his performance lately.
Another relatively liberal politician -- the outspoken economist G.Yavlinsky -- lost the support of most of the elite because of his often maverick pronouncements.
In these dying days of serious newspaper journalism, slick television shows, packaged by highly-paid anchormen – who never utter an original thought themselves, and would never expect a politician to do so – are the only venues where professional politicians feel secure enough to “face” the public.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s unrestrained behavior, both personal and financial, made him the perfect politician for the neo-liberal age.
James Buchal, a Republican politician in Oregon, suggested in May that Republicans should hire right-wing militia groups as security guards during Republican rallies.
Schroeder is a provincial politician who was used by the Social Democrats used as the safe face for their new/old approach.
An appreciating currency is what the fiscal reform effort was delivering until Temer was recorded endorsing the payment of hush money to a jailed politician.
He tightened legislation aimed at throttling civil society, pursued lawsuits against protesters, and blocked the activity of Alexei Navalny, a promising opposition politician.
His rise was improbable, because Putin is no career politician, but someone whose worldview was shaped by his experience in the KGB, an institution that operated beyond public scrutiny and without fear of legal or other constraints.
To the European politician strongly opposed to migration, I suggest that the next time you need hospital treatment, take a look around you: many of the people caring for you have a migrant’s tale.
Rather, populism is a thoroughly moralized conception of politics, and a populist is a politician who claims that he or she – and only he or she – truly represents the people, thus relegating all political opponents to the role of iniquitous pretenders.
Corrupt and UnequalNEW YORK – The stunning fall from grace and power of the Chinese politician Bo Xilai, and the continuing revelations concerning the enormous wealth that he and his family illicitly amassed, has gripped the world’s attention.
Mr. Lavin obtained a remarkable 48.7% of the vote by campaigning as an efficient, issue-oriented politician that was not influenced by ideology or the petty political quarrels of the past.
Right now, every senior politician in America is telling their favorites in the press that they are confident that compromise on the “fiscal cliff” will be reached before the end of December.
It is a brave politician who can propose that a year's economic output be lost!
Like Corbyn, he has the air of authenticity – a politician who says what he thinks, unlike the scripted professionals of mainstream Washington.
When we condemn the behavior of a politician, celebrity, or friend, we often end up appealing to our moral intuitions.
At least one Italian politician has called for his arrest on a charge of homicide.
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