Sarah Paine

Because what he did, the payoff was huge, ending the Cold War on Western terms.

But it doesn't pay off in time for the next election.

I think this is where Americans miss it, is you're looking at what someone does on a given day when the real implications are what's going to happen in a decade.

Like on tax policy, if we keep racking up our debt, it may get us out of the corner today, but is it going to really back us into a corner later on?

And this is where Americans need to think a little harder about long-term implications of things.

Well, there's a statement that politicians think of the next election, statesmen think of the next generation.

George Bush and Helmut Kold are statesmen.

They're thinking of the next generation.

And the group that fought World War II, also many of U.S.

and also allied leaders were statespeople.

They're thinking of the next generation.

Or if you're thinking of them...

where I've got Mitterrand, who's negotiating the Maastricht Treaty about the European Union.

That is statesperson's work of what's the next generation.

So...

It's important.

And we haven't held our political... It's been... We need more statesmen, statespeople, for our political leaders.

You know, I get it.

They're oil really subsidized.

But everything in the Soviet Union that was worth having came from somewhere else.