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The less we expect from a “normal” politician, the more we look for a hero.
A political career rooted in historical coincidence made Havel an unusual politician.
Havel’s public life could be divided into three distinct periods: artist (1956-1969), dissident (1969-1989), and politician (1989-2003) – except that he always combined all three sensibilities in his public activities.
Acting on such beliefs in his political career made him a politician of the kind that the contemporary world no longer sees.
But Putin has a true politician's sense of how to handle adversity.
The third case opened an old complaint lodged by a politician decades ago against the “troika” – composed of the president, the prime minister, and the chief of army staff – that then governed Pakistan.
Thus, one should pay tribute to the resilience of Dutch Muslims as they resist the provocations of the right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who is bent on releasing a film that can only inflame public prejudice against Islam.
But does the legitimate interest in knowing more about a politician extend to details about personal relations?
Remarkably for a Dutch politician – and a minor one, at that – news of Wilders’s antics has reached the world press.
Choosing the country’s most powerful politician on the basis of his presentability on television might seem arbitrary, even frivolous.
Lessons learned as a young politician shape his approach: create mutual trust by making buddies of opponents, then strike a deal that both sides can live with.
No sane politician will commit to another decade of structural reforms that will test the patience of ordinary Latin Americans beyond the limits of electoral survival.
Therefore, let me first present my anticorruption credentials: as Deputy Prime Minister in 1999 I was the first Polish politician to ask the World Bank to prepare a report on corruption in Poland and ways to eradicate it.
They lay all the blame for Iraq’s problems at the door of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a tough-minded Shia politician who has led the venerable Dawa Party to the head of a broad Shia coalition that helped him win a second term in December 2010.
Brinkmanship of the sort that took place as the Wall went up is usually the product of a politician desperate to shore up his domestic position.
Alain Peyrefitte, the scholar, politician, and confidant of Charles de Gaulle, said that “without Europe, France will be nothing”; but, without France, Europe, too, would be nothing.
But, after the unexpected death of his mentor, the skillful machine politician and Labour Party leader John Smith, he was catapulted to the top, as though by divine right.
In the US, Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was another such a “fast-tracked” politician.
Dutch politician Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party is informally part of the governing coalition, did them one better by being charged with incitement to anti-Muslim hatred.
Today, no politician even dares to mention help for poor people.
First, no politician wants to turn the press against him: Tony Blair’s wooing of Murdoch, owner the Sun, the Times, and the Sunday Times, is legendary, as was its pay-off.
Boris Johnson the Counter-RevolutionaryLONDON – If history repeats itself – first tragedy, then farce – what comes next is Boris Johnson, a shape-shifting politician who embodies the contradictions of our age.
Later, as a dissident, Havel continued writing and became a politician of sorts as the unofficial leader of the anti-communist opposition.
Partly owing to Havel, the Czech Republic is now a standard democratic country whose fate does not depend on one politician.
With this in mind, more than one politician should have already followed in JFK’s footsteps, stepping forward to announce this generation’s critical moonshot, and to offer the public finances needed to make it happen.
Surely, Shevardnadze’s political skills were worthy of another great Soviet politician from the Caucasus, the Armenian Anastas Mikoyan, once Stalin’s trusted trade minister and later Nikita Khrushchev’s fellow anti-Stalinist and deputy prime minister.
Schmidt understood that a practical politician had to deal with events as they unfolded, managing them as astutely as possible.
He was also a visionary and sly politician, who never fully shook off his East European origins.
What politician wouldn’t prefer money that gives him more freedom to do what he likes?
It will be years before any problems become manifest – and, then, some future politician will have to resolve them.
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