Word: statesmanship
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...finer moments, but its full promise was never realized. Sadat paid for the deal with his life when he was assassinated in 1981, and Egypt was exiled from the Arab community for eight years. Begin, whose conservative Likud bloc ascended to power in 1977, was praised for his ! statesmanship, but he apparently saw the return of the Sinai as a final act, not as a prelude to negotiating the return of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Then in 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon in an attempt to wipe out the Palestine Liberation Organization once...
...Nancy Pelosi knows, that is the more powerful position - at least, it traditionally has been. The speaker's power comes not from public pomp or grand acts of statesmanship, but from hundreds of small ones, usually far beneath the radar of the general public. When Americans notice who the Speaker of the House is, it's usually because they've done something wrong - unless, like Tip O'Neill, they've been in office longer than any of the Presidents they served. Newt Gingrich's notoriety was a rare exception - and his steep fall from grace a cautionary example...
...century. It seems like half the Senate chamber is either running for President or thinking about it. All of those Senators will be grandstanding to the primary voters in their own party, and ingratiating themselves with the interest groups they think they need. That's hardly conducive to statesmanship or compromise...
...never inspired by this President's profession of faith--not by the story of his born-again triumph over alcohol or by his wish to help the poor and needy and certainly not by his purported Christian values toward his fellow man. On the other hand, his lack of statesmanship, his arrogant management style and his lack of intellectual curiosity send clear messages of a man in a job over his head. I remain hopeful that our next national leader will demonstrate more competence and simply subscribe to the doctrine of treating others as you wish to be treated...
...linked terrorist group that has targeted Shi'ites and secular Iraqis. He has blamed Iraq's problems on the Jews and has said statues should be erected to those who kill American troops. President Bush has lavishly praised both al-Mashhadani and al-Maliki, but flattery has not produced statesmanship. The real problem is that they reflect the views of their respective communities, which voted overwhelmingly for them...