The name of this statesman is known to everybody in Japan.

In addition to being a great statesman, Churchill was a great writer.

He is a great statesman, and what is more a great scholar.

That will be the best possible tribute to the memory of an outstanding statesman.

Not as great a general as Napoleon, not as great a statesman as Frederick the Great.

Patriotism could generate business opportunities. The great Florentine liberal statesman, Bettino Ricasoli, concluded that Tuscany was simply financially unviable on its own.

Our hearts are afflicted at his loss, but he has left behind the memory of a statesman distinguished for his outstanding competence and ability.

Nakasone emerged from the crisis and was recognized as a capable statesman in managing Japan s diplomacy with China. There was no accusation that Nakasone was selling out to Beijing.

The issue, therefore, is not what Tony Blair, in his inaugural speech to the European Parliament, called a crisis of leadership. No statesman has emerged because the crisis runs deeper.

And you also knew, more or less, that if you were to go back in time 200 years and ask the following statesman with equally fabulous hair, Tom, what should I say?

Then she came up and said, They ask me why I teach and I reply, 'Where could I find such splendid company?' There sits a statesman, strong, unbiased, wise another Daniel Webster, silver tongued.

The best starting point would be a re reading of Winston Churchill s famous speech in Zurich in 1946. We must build a kind of United States of Europe, urged Britain s greatest twentieth century statesman.

What is necessary now is statesman like leadership and even more so states woman like leadership. Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are facing the defining challenge of their respective terms in office.

Forty years ago, a great American statesman, Dean Acheson, looked back at the excitement he felt in helping to build the post World War II order. Present at the Creation, he called his memoir.

In that regard, let us recall the moving words of the first President of the General Assembly, the eminent European statesman Paul Henri Spaak, who, on 11 January 1946, declared in his presidential address

As Islamists anger at Musharraf s betrayals increases, so does his global standing and image as a world statesman. Scenes of wild eyed mullahs demonstrating in the streets of Pakistani cities are a boon to his position.

Emulating the French statesman Cardinal Richelieu, Kissinger helped the weaker power against the stronger one. No such overarching strategy underlies Obama s policy, even if it may be justified on the more limited grounds of nuclear non proliferation.

The lessons of the Second World War are clearly enunciated in the preamble of the treaty which formed the basis of the future European Union, as announced on 9 May 1950 by the statesman Robert Schuman in his famous declaration.

Javier Solana and United States Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns joined the High Representative in condemning this attempt to question the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially coming from a statesman representing a signatory of the Dayton accords.

In proclaiming his mastery of the lingua franca of global affairs, Hollande was asserting himself as a modern statesman, while also suggesting that France will remain as influential as possible on the international scene. Indeed, he was proclaiming his commitment to internationalism and multilateralism.

In Syria as in so many other conflict affected areas, where the UN is fighting to promote peace and stability there is no such thing as a clear victory. As an experienced statesman once told me, At the UN, we do not settle for failure, nor do we expect success.

Truth and utility, wrote Francis Bacon, the early seventeenth century English philosopher and statesman, are the very same things. In other words, the truth of beliefs about the world is guaranteed only by the capacity of those beliefs to be turned into actions that produce the practical outcomes that human beings desire.

As former US Ambassador to China Gary F. Locke reported in a speech early this year, the concept of equality before the law has deep historical roots. Indeed, in the fourth century BC, the statesman and reformer Shang Yang famously asserted that, When the prince violates the law, the crime he commits is the same as that of the common people.

Historians of Europe will probably one day conclude that it is the Holocaust and Europe s relations with its Jews that paved the way for the opening of this process of repentance. In the words of the Polish historian and statesman Bronislaw Geremek, the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, has to be seen as one of the founding moments of today s Europe.

But here, in this place, it is not Mandela the statesman who touches my soul and fires my imagination. My Mandela is the prisoner, the Mandela of Robben Island, who endured 27 years behind bars (18 of them on a rock in the South Atlantic) and yet emerged with his spirit intact, brimming with a vision of a tolerant South Africa, a country liberated even for apartheid s architects and beneficiaries.

So, while the interim agreement may not be a replay of the Munich Agreement in 1938, as many critics contend, it may have set the stage for an even more combustible future. US President Barack Obama may not be in office when the fire ignites, but if things do go terribly wrong, he may be remembered as another statesman who, like Neville Chamberlain, was blind to the consequences of his peaceful intentions.

In the weeks since France and the Netherlands rejected the European Union s proposed Constitutional Treaty, the EU s leaders have been busy pointing fingers at each other or blaming French and Dutch citizens for misunderstanding the question they were asked. But no pan European statesman has emerged, and no major European institution has even had the courage to provide its own analysis of the current situation, much less propose a strategic scenario for the future.