Word: statesmanship
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...obvious example of T.R.'s "Never Around" approach to statesmanship was the Panama Canal, which he ordered built in 1903, after what he called "three centuries of conversation." If a convenient revolution had to be fomented in Colombia (in order to facilitate the independence of Panama province and allow construction to proceed p.d.q.), well, that was Bogota's bad luck for being obstructionist and good fortune for the rest of world commerce. Being a historian, T.R. never tired of pointing out that his Panamanian revolution had been merely the 53rd anti-Colombian insurrection in as many years...
America's entry into the Second World War marked the high point of Churchill's statesmanship. Britain, demographically, industrially and financially, had entered the war weaker than either of its eventual allies, the Soviet Union and the U.S. Defeats in 1940 had weakened it further, as had the liquidation of its international investments to fund its early war efforts. During 1942, the prestige Britain had won as Hitler's only enemy allowed Churchill to sustain parity of leadership in the anti-Nazi alliance with Roosevelt and Stalin...
...statesmanship, courage and imperturbability guided Harvard and Radcliffe's alliance during the turbulent period of national unrest," Wilson said in a news release...
...boosterism abroad lead to accusations that he was conflating business and diplomacy, two areas whose interests don't always coincide. In 1994, when he encouraged Clinton to separate human rights from trade issues in China, critics charged that Brown was woefully, and perhaps willfully, ignorant of the difference between statesmanship and salesmanship. There were also accusations that his trips were being used to reward Democratic contributors...
...issues such as the federal budget, health care and even environmental regulation, opinion polls should be left out of the whole policy-making process completely. Politicians should act on their strong convictions. Or, allow polls to completely determine policy. In that gray area between public determination and true statesmanship, politicians have their heyday. And the American people (people, not just "voters") have a bad day. In the current political process, "voters" are "third-railed...