Word: statesmanship
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...damage that Koizumi has done to Japan's Asian relations. But with national pride is surging in Japan - on Wednesday the government reacted furiously after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on a Japanese fishing boat sailing in disputed waters, killing a fisherman - Abe would need to show real statesmanship. "It would take a Prime Minister who has a rational view of the situation, who says, 'This is bad for Japan, and I won't go,'" says Robert Dujarric, a Tokyo-based analyst and senior associate at the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia. "I don't know...
...bring them together in a big tent held aloft by the idea that the government, which ought to serve the people, had been hijacked by special interests. "To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day," the Progressive platform declared...
...virtually impossible to point to a single substantive policy in the past three years that has been his own. The combined lack of creative leadership and of consistent political principle make Nixon’s opportunism dangerous to Eisenhower Republicanism and to the nation.... Eisenhower’s statesmanship has been the kind that can unify a nation, Nixon’s antics are intensely partisan. Eisenhower’s policy has been generally liberal; Nixon’s real policy is totally elusive. As a quick-change artist of the worst sort, Nixon’s entire political career...
...ascent from the brain's basement, where the crocodile lives, to the upper chambers may be the most impressive climb that humans attempt. In 1993 the traffic was heavy in both directions, from the world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism...
...that the only responsible decision left for Romney and his allies is to drop the issue and let the Commonwealth continue to exist as it has. The recent decision of the Massachusetts Legislature was commendable; let’s hope that the Governor follows in this path of responsible statesmanship...