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An enduring memory from my own recent visit to its capital Chisinau is the election poster of a local politician called Lupu, who holds a pair of spectacles to his eyes, whether to suggest visions or wisdom isn’t clear.
Thus, Auschwitz is dismissed as a “detail of history,” in the telling phrase of the French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
She rightly described herself as a “conviction politician.”
Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed; but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise.
And, while she was Britain’s most successful female politician ever, she regarded feminism as “poison,” and did little to encourage women to follow her.
Only a politician who has the support of major constituencies can hope to restore political order and economic health, and Musharraf is presenting himself as a candidate whom the military might support.
She takes pride in being the Indian politician who pays the highest income taxes – about $6 million last year – though the sources of her income are shrouded in controversy.
The added deficits of Sandersnomics, or for that matter those of any other politician, would further depress America’s national saving – thereby exacerbating the multilateral trade imbalance that puts such acute pressure on middle-class families.
His long association with Bettino Craxi, Milan's most influential politician in the 1970's and Italy's prime minister through much of the 1980's, started early.
On the other hand, political connections do not make a politician.
Many outside the US thought it was high time that someone offered America a taste of its own paternalism – and even better that that someone was Putin, a politician who has, to put it gently, his own set of foibles.
In his astonishingly swift rise, he was virtually alone – a Democrat, but not a creature of the Democratic Party, a politician of progressive instincts, but not an ideologue.
But how can they avoid electing another politician whose priorities are as misguided as those of Yanukovych?
Greenspan was as enthusiastic for a policy that led to soaring deficits as any politician; but the fig leaf of being “above politics” gave credence to that policy, engendering support from some who otherwise would have questioned its economic wisdom.
In an uncertain age, whoever defines us first, whether a politician, an artist, or an intellectual, will merit a prominent place in our history.
Homage to Simone VeilPARIS – I have an abiding image of Simone Veil, the French (and later European) politician who died last week.
Throughout my premiership, I kept a quote of hers in mind: “I am not a consensus politician;I am a conviction politician.”
Her rigorous sense of the true duty of a politician always gave me comfort during a political struggle, for our duty as leaders is not to hold office, but to use our power to improve people’s lives and increase the scope of their freedom.
What is at stake is not the future of a politician or his party, but the destiny of the French Republic – and the future of Europe.
The smouldering fires of Gujarat provide India's politician with a moment to do as Sen suggests.
As the veteran liberal Russian politician Leonid Gozman points out, “To judge from the statements of our propagandists, the Russian state is very valuable,” but it is also “a very fragile construct that can be destroyed by anything,” from the fight against corruption to efforts to oust kleptocratic officials.
No mainstream German, French, or Spanish politician would dare discuss the matter openly, let alone advocate divorce.
The election of a populist politician in the coming presidential election will not change this.
But no European politician on the horizon is likely to take this approach.
That would be a result for which every politician would be happy to accept responsibility.
A politician who represents the interests primarily of economic elites has to find other means of appealing to the masses.
Breivik’s Call to ArmsNEW YORK – Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is convinced that Europe is “in the final stages of Islamization,” is right: Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, is mad.
Indeed, only one right-wing European politician, Francesco Speroni of the Italian Northern League, which is part of Silvio Berlusconi’s government, was prepared to defend Breivik.
Success as Mayor of Bucharest will boost his chances, and what better way is there for a politician to promote himself than by “cleaning up” some seemingly intractable problem – particularly one that symbolizes ten years of incompetence and despair.
Voters in their various ways have realized, longer probably than many a politician, that the "German model" with its short working hours, long holidays, secure and substantial pensions, social security and comprehensive health insurance for all could not last forever.
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