Who's the most literary Statesman of all time?

Xi Jinping seems very well read

Lenin

Definitely a commie.

Cicero.

fridtjof nansen probably

I hate politicians.

All commies fucking do is read fucking commie literature, that doesn't count as well read.

>Lenin
>"It was only later, during our exile in Siberia, that I learned that Ilyich knew the classics as well as I did, and had not only read, but had re-read Turgenev, for instance. I brought with me to Siberia books by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov. Ilyich arranged them near his bed, alongside Hegel, and read them over and over again in the evenings. Pushkin was his favourite. But it was not only the style that he liked. For example, he was very fond of Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done? despite the fact that its style is somewhat naive. I was surprised when I saw how attentively he read this book and how he noticed its finest points. Incidentally, he was very fond of Chernyshevsky, and his Siberian album contained two photographs of this writer, on one of which he had written the dates of the writer's birth and death. This album also contained a photograph of Emile Zola and of Russian writers, Herzen and Pisarev. At one time Ilyich was very fond of Pisarev and read many of his works. In Siberia we also had a copy of Goethe's Faust, and a volume of Heine's poems, both in German. Upon returning to Moscow from exile Ilyich went to the theatre to see Der Kutscher Hänschel. He said afterwards that he had greatly enjoyed it. Among the books he liked while in Munich I remember Gerhardt's Bei Mama, and Büttnerbauer by Polenz. Afterwards, during our second emigration in Paris, Ilyich found pleasure in reading Victor Hugo's Châtiments, dealing with the 1848 revolution; Hugo wrote it while abroad, and copies were smuggled into France."

>Xi
>"When he was interviewed in Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics, he provided a laundry list of Russian authors he admired: “Krylov, Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Nekrasov, Chernyshevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, [and] Sholokhov.” In France a month later, Xi had a similar list handy of French figures: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Sartre, Montaigne, La Fontaine, Molière, Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas fils, Maupassant, Romain Rolland, and Jules Verne. In Germany he noted his fondness for Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Heidegger, and Marcuse and spoke of the “enchanting melodies by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms.” In Mexico he paid tribute to “Diego Rivera, the master of contemporary art, and … Octavio Paz, the towering figure in literature.” And so on. […]"

hurr muh fuggn gommies

>All
Soft brain

Okay the list from the Chinese premier is super suspect. These are things he mentioned during official state visits, grabbing at their balls. Clearly somewhat a tactic no matter how much he reads

Washington - Quincy Adams were all very literary (Andrew Jackson was a piece of shit) as were most world leaders through the years.

One of my favorite modern Veeky Forums leaders was Vaclav Havel who was a playwright and author before becoming president in one of the few non-violent revolutions in the 20th century.