A Soulful Journey

A politician awoke after an operation and found the curtains in his hospital room drawn. ”Why are the curtains closed? Is it night already?” ”No,” the nurse replied. “But there's a fire across the street and we did not want you to wake and think the operation was unsuccessful.”   -Rotary Down Under  

Shimon Peres had a reputation for being a consummate politician.  A story is told of him traveling down  road and coming to a fork.  At the crossroads, Peres asked which route Ben Gurion would have taken.  The driver responded, "He would have left his options open." Peres then asks what Menachem Begin would have done.  The driver answered, "Begin would have chosen a route and then obtained a legal document attesting to the fact that there were no other options available." Peres thought and then said to the driver, "Signal left, and then turn right."

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician looks to the next election while the statesman looks to the next generation.” - Rabbi Sidney Greenberg