American Statesman Quotes

#1. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips

#2. Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.

Saul David

#3. The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

Jan Chipchase

#4. I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

Steve Yzerman

#5. Death is an art, you know.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#6. Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

Michael Bloomberg

#7. Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

Curious George Brigade

#8. Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier. Banks didn't do that

Jamie Dimon

#9. The voices of the children were pure; their hearts were pure. Some of them had already discovered how hard life could be; others had yet to do so and probably did not fully understand what the world could be.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Francis Parkman

#11. Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

Frederick Lenz

#12. P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

J.K. Rowling

#13. The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.

Michael Portillo

#14. A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson's biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It's first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

F. Sionil Jose

#15. Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.

Sathya Sai Baba

#16. The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Confucius

#17. I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

Eugene Jarecki