We are statesmen, and the Republicans are statesmen.

What is urgently required now are genuine statesmen and stateswomen.

The throngs of people. The charismatic young leaders and elder statesmen.

Western statesmen are right to congratulate themselves on averting an immediate major crisis.

On the contrary, responsible statesmen and party leaders have come out openly against Turkish membership.

Its statesmen used to assert that Germany had no independent foreign policy, only a European policy.

What Europe needs in this serious crisis are statesmen and women of Kohl s caliber, not domestic politicians!

Today s statesmen like to say that they have avoided the protectionist error as well, but is that true?

If the two leaders meet as statesmen, however, they will save Greece, the eurozone, and the faltering European spirit.

But these so called statesmen never consider what might have happened had Germany and Britain both had nuclear weapons in 1939.

Most importantly, European statesmen, who know in their hearts what is required, must show the courage and the wisdom to lead.

He is such a remarkable man,' said the ambassador's wife. 'My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.'

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel now have the opportunity to rise to the occasion as European statesmen.

But statesmen, if they are to deserve the name, sometimes must take the politically uncomfortable high ground and then bring their publics along.

He also used his power the subdue (and even kill) other able statesmen whom he thought to be potential competitors for his post.

Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so a powerful spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands.

Indeed, exceptions to this pattern are rare South Africa is one, owing to the genius of one of the century s most outstanding statesmen, Nelson Mandela.

Lawyers must seek this distinction, for if we surrender to the rhetorical claims of statesmen and paranoids, the line between aggression and self defense will disappear.

Yet French and German statesmen summoned the vision and the will to launch a bold experiment, one that has evolved into a single economy of 500 million people.

We note with satisfaction that the new US administration has not turned a deaf ear to responsible statesmen and scientists who are calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Indeed, in a certain sense, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and other neo conservative elder statesmen remain defined by the communist dogmatism they sought to oppose when they were youthful Trotskyists.

Likewise, Altiero Spinelli, another of the EU s founding fathers, wrote late in life that without visionary Europeans there would be no Europe, but without pragmatic statesmen, the visionaries would have gotten nowhere.

In 1919, John Maynard Keynes told the statesmen of post World War I Europe to abandon their vindictive patriotism for the sake of building a future of peace based on European integration.

The Wrights traveled to Pau, in the south of France, where Wilbur made many more public flights, giving rides to a procession of officers, journalists and statesmen and his sister Katharine on February 15.

The atmosphere could not have been more tranquil a former royal castle in the rolling hills of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, where statesmen and politicians held an annual meeting dealing with the Middle East.

Europe rose from the rubble of World War II because of the vision of statesmen now it has been brought to the verge of collapse by the everyday vanities, corruption, and cynicism of bankers and politicians.

But when even leaders who are normally considered to be responsible statesmen, such as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, begin justifying Putin s actions, Europe risks frittering away the very security on which its prosperity is built.

In addition, Australia and Japan have launched a major international commission on nuclear non proliferation and disarmament. My own multimedia WMD WeMustDisarm! campaign, which will culminate on the International Day of Peace (21 September), will reinforce growing calls for disarmament by former statesmen and grassroots campaigns, such as Global Zero.

(Indeed, the name of the political process by which the EU was to be constructed, neo functionalism, was every bit as abstract and cumbersome as two state condominialism. ) Yet French and German statesmen summoned the vision and the will to launch a bold experiment, one that has evolved into a single economy of 500 million people.

Usually neglected by globetrotting statesmen, the continent recently saw visits from US President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazil's Lula Da Silva, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and many other world leaders. Their public comments were typically devoted to development, ending Africa's many wars, and the fight against HIV AIDS, but all of them had oil on their minds.

More broadly, the urgent task for Asian statesmen over the next 5 10 years will be to replace the region s Pax Americana, which has guaranteed regional stability for decades, with a more comprehensive Pax Asia Pacifica that is built on inclusiveness and burden sharing. But such an Asia Pacific peace will be durable only if it is based on a balance of mutual benefits rather than on the balance of power.

When Somaliland s people vote at the end of September, they will not be deciding explicitly on secession, but their steady effort at state building does amplify their claims to independence. So, two years after Kosovo s independence, and a year after Russian troops wrenched Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia, it is high time for diplomats and statesmen to provide some guidelines as to when and in what circumstances secession is likely to be acceptable.