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Also delightful and interesting is this comment on 364-365: βTo judge whether such retaliations are likely to produce such an effect, does not, perhaps, belong so much to the science of the legislator, whose deliberations ought to be governed by general principles which are always the same, as to the skill of that insidious and crafty animal, vulgarly called a stateman or politician, whose councils are directed by the momentary fluctuations of affairs.β
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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It's perfectly find for Reid to bring her up, since all of Palin's temper-tantrums last week have paid off in people wanting to help him (and gave him a chance to look cool, collected and like the stateman he is next to the Tea Party hotheads).
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How is it ok for a stateman to scream "liar" during a state of the union address?
'I've made mistakes,' Steele admits at big GOP conference 2010
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I'm not willing to miss an opportunity to potentially vote in the next stateman we will see.
Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly 2008
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Thats alot of tough talk coming from an elder stateman.
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In the second exchange Cameron can ask the statesman-like questions and force Gordon to be stateman-like too.
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Ron Paul is the only true stateman in Washington DC.
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The team's elder stateman has a 38-0 record in international play, including a gold medal from the 2000 Games in Sydney.
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Be a stateman that you are and just congradulate her.
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If Senator Obama had been a stateman instead of a corrupt politician, this suit would not be necessary.
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