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Democracy in Tea Party AmericaBERKELEY – When the French politician and moral philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville published the first volume of his Democracy in America in 1835, he did so because he thought that France was in big trouble and could learn much from America.
At the end of the film, as America’s erstwhile clients turn into the Taliban, Wilson, the American politician who got them the money, is quoted as saying “We won a great victory, but fouled up the end game.”
Mr. Rato is an able politician and under his stewardship Spain's finances have done well.
With a doctorate in economics, he is a respected and widely published scholar, an experienced manager, and an able politician who was elected to Chile's Senate five years ago.
But skepticism that money can be made off the poor extends well beyond the politician.
Lyrical observations aside, as a professional politician, I see deeper changes.
Sober-minded politician also accept this.
Lapid will prove himself either a real leader or just another politician who briefly captured the fancy of Israeli centrists.
He is a true conviction politician, inspired less by a sense of the future as by a sense of morality.
And, not surprisingly, despite the Maduro regime’s increasing – and increasingly well-documented – brutality, not a single politician, soldier, police officer, militia member, or paramilitary “enforcer” has been indicted, tried, or sentenced for any crime.
After all, the European Union is first and foremost a community of democracies: if Ukraine can aspire to membership, any oligarch or criminal politician who undermines that prospect will have to face the ire of all Ukrainians.
And although John Kerry isn't the most charismatic of candidates or the savviest politician, he represents the possibility of removing George Bush from the White House.
But rhetoric has consequences, and a politician as gifted as Modi must be aware that those in his party who are deploying public speech to undermine reputations can also weaken the very institutions that are crucial to his own laudable economic ambitions for India.
When a would-be exploiter of trees stands before a politician and requests, or demands, the right to clear a forest, the politician, out of fear, complies.
A politician must, like it or not, be a mirror.
A politician should also seek to win people over to his own ideas even when unpopular.
For politics must entail convincing voters that there are things which the politician recognizes or comprehends better than they do, and that it is for this reason that they should vote for him.
People can thus delegate to a politician certain issues which they - for a variety of reasons - do not sense themselves, or do not want to worry about, but which someone has to take up on their behalf.
A good politician should be able to explain without seeking to seduce; he should humbly look for the truth of this world without claiming to be its professional owner; he should alert people to the good qualities in themselves, including a sense of the values and interests which transcend the personal, without giving himself an air of superiority and imposing anything on his fellow humans; he should not yield to the dictate of public moods or of the mass media, while never hindering a constant scrutiny of his actions.
The situation was so grave that no responsible politician favored the type of policies that Skidelsky argues should have been adopted.
But it is far from obvious that Sonia Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress and the country’s most powerful politician, shares Singh’s reform agenda.
When we choose a career or a spouse in our private lives, or when a politician seizes an opportunity from a plethora of possibilities, the task at hand is always about making highly consequential decisions based on imperfect information.
An astute politician, Park did not hesitate to campaign wholeheartedly for Lee the last time around – a move that, as part of long-term political strategy, made perfect sense.
Unfortunately, no US politician appears willing to explain this bit of common sense to the American public.
He does not match Peter the Great in physical stature, but he has proven to be a gifted politician, capable of grasping, then controlling, the mood of the Russian people.
He seems incapable of connecting with ordinary Hong Kong citizens, instead coming across as a shifty politician who often dodges direct questions, offers vague answers, and evades responsibility for major failings by apologizing for minor shortcomings.
India sees nothing unusual in Rijiju, an Arunachali politician, being present for a major spiritual occasion.
Unlike the typical East Coast politician, Trump doesn’t depend on votes and donations from American Jews, and therefore has little reason not to criticize, even threaten, Israel publicly.
If the presidency goes to a politician who lacks fame and charisma, its place will forever be low down in the international pecking order.
Kostunica, however, is a sensible politician.
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