The Irish Times (June 13)
“Next door in Britain there’s a fevered contest under way for leadership of the Tory Party and thus Britain. The right-wing Tory Party once presented itself as the pragmatic party of business. Now it’s a radical separatist sect populated by clownish demagogues.” The three leading contenders are “the opium user [Rory Stewart], the buffoon [Boris Johnson]and the swivel-eyed loon [Dominic Raab].”
Tags: Buffoon, Business, Contest, Cownish, Demagogues, Johnson, Leadership, Loon. Raab, Opium, Pragmatic, Radical, Separatist, Stewart, Tory Party, UK
Bloomberg (November 20)
“After 12 years in office that have made her Europe’s anchor of stability in times of crisis, Merkel failed to stitch together an alliance that’s never been tried at the national level. While the breakdown leaves her in charge as acting chancellor, the collapse may signal the limit of her pragmatic, non-ideological style of governing and leaves her options for staying in power for another four years dramatically narrowed.”
Tags: Alliance, Breakdown, Chancellor, Collapse, Crisis, Europe, Germany, Governing, Merkel, Non-ideological, Pragmatic, Stability
Los Angeles Times (September 23)
“Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Donald Trump would be a catastrophe.” Electing the first female U.S. president “would surely be as exhilarating as it is long overdue…. But that’s not the chief reason to vote for her. She deserves America’s support because she is the overwhelmingly better candidate.”
Institutional Investor (February Issue)
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is shaking up India with his pragmatic, pro-growth government, but it will take time to fulfill the sky-high expectations he’s raised.”
Tags: Expectations, Government, India, Modi, Pragmatic, Pro-growth
Washington Post (November 25)
The Iran nuclear talks have been extended, which may prove a good thing. The talks resemble “a labor negotiation in which it’s too costly for workers to go on strike or for management to impose a lockout, so the two sides continue without a contract while negotiations proceed.” Whether this will ultimately lead to success, however, will largely depend on whether Iran decides to be a nation or a cause, pragmatic or zealous.
Washington Post (September 17)
“Afghanistan is teetering between a political implosion that could ignite civil war in Kabul and a power-sharing deal that could give the country another chance for stability.” Official election results will soon be announced, but due to voting irregularities a “winner-takes-all approach” is unsustainable. “It is up to Mr. Abdullah and Mr. Ghani [the two candidates] to show that Afghanistan can have a future under moderate, pragmatic leaders who are able to compromise.”
Tags: Abdullah, Afghanistan, Civil war, Compromise, Election, Ghani, Implosion, Kabul, Leaders, Moderate, Power sharing, Pragmatic, Results, Stability, Voting
