They envy and fear the political skills of Mr Adams and other nationalist leaders.
Dodd, now one of Daschle's close confidants, marvels at his old rival's political skills.
But managing the turbulence will require both luck and political skills of a high order.
Ms Merkel will need all her political skills to make a grand coalition work.
Whether, and at what pace, the country solves them will depend on Ms Rousseff's political skills.
Mr Daley is happy to wield his prodigious political skills in the airport battle.
Mr Beatty has the political skills it takes to rise to the top of a brutal industry.
But such a judgment says more about the egalitarian Swedish way of thought than about his political skills.
Roosevelt and Hoover had night-and-day differences in personality and political skills, but both deserve failing grades in economics.
"What Monti's experience has shown is that you need political skills to be a politician, " said Professor Orsina.
That he has governed for 32 months is a tribute to the political skills of an underestimated man.
The mere fact that Slobo is still around to do more killing is a mark of his political skills.
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His oratory is combined, however, with an occasional inarticulacy which leads many to underestimate his intelligence and political skills.
Before his role representing Venezuela abroad, Maduro honed his political skills at home.
Mr Osborne's political skills explain the strong position in which he finds himself.
You needed multiple experiences before you could learn the business and political skills and accumulate enough of an unfair advantage.
The senator is a policy wonk with the political skills, regularly applied across party lines, to put ideas into practice.
But Mr Bush will have to show sharper political skills than the ones he has displayed in the past few weeks.
He needs political skills, to steer a course through the regulatory maze.
But since the Chinese leader's formal proclamation as Deng's heir, his political skills have not yet been tested by a major crisis.
She rose to the very top in 2005 by outsmarting rivals with more impressive credentials, greater political skills and bigger power bases.
Conservatives reviled him as a radical liberal and feared his political skills.
He makes a convincing evangelist for free trade and has the political skills to bang heads together and to broker trade deals.
Observers question Johnson's political skills, and they readily offer anecdotes that suggest that she is amateurish in her approach to the campaign.
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's finance minister and head of the IMF's policy advisory committee, is widely admired for his technical and political skills.
To date, Mr Osborne has used his political skills to good effect.
Mr Dewar may need all his political skills to win a referendum which once was thought to be all but in the bag.
Yet unlike Jordaan, who has clearly retained the political skills that saw him serve as an MP in the 1990s, Khoza had no back-up option.
The prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, an old-style dispenser of pork with few obvious modern political skills, wins the approval of just 20% of opinion-poll respondents.
Yet a new government, its political skills notwithstanding, could get lucky.
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