Top 72 Quotes About Statesmanship
#1. Because John McCain stood up our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of a teleprompter speech designed to appeal to American critics abroad, but because of decades of clearly demonstrated character and statesmanship.
Fred Thompson
#2. Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel
#3. Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.
Wendell Berry
#4. Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what can be the mental norm of statesmanship where such a minority conquer the peace-lovers?
Eden Phillpotts
#5. The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ...
Malcolm Fraser
#7. Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic,
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#8. The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#9. The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.
Frank Underhill
#10. I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
Otto Von Bismarck
#11. We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Queen Elizabeth II
#13. He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Kenneth Baker
#14. I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
Richard Carmona
#15. To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Theodore Roosevelt
#16. In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Mark Twain
#17. I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.
Muhammadu Buhari
#18. In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.
Henry Kissinger
#20. If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.
Bret Stephens
#21. Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.
Chris Christie
#24. By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.
Mark Twain
#25. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell
#26. The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Enoch Powell
#27. Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.
H.G.Wells
#28. There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
George MacDonald Fraser
#29. It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
Clara Barton
#30. Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
Stephen Kinzer
#31. The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
Robert Toombs
#32. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For
Will Durant
#33. Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
Will Rogers
#36. And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
John Grierson
#37. You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Aneurin Bevan
#38. The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ...
Harriet Martineau
#39. Who think in lifetimes are of no use to statesmanship.
Louis L'Amour
#40. It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen
#41. All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
Sydney J. Harris
#42. Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#43. The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.
Ronald Reagan
#44. Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.
Henry Adams
#46. Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter Lippmann
#47. In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#48. President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.
Wesley Clark
#49. To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
Warren R. Austin
#50. No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
Will Durant
#51. War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
Ellen Key
#52. It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.
Mark Twain
#53. [T]here cannot be a more certain symptom of the approaching ruin of a State than when a firm adherence to party is fixed upon as the only test of merit, and all the qualifications requisite to a right discharge of every employment, are reduced to that single standard.
Edward Wortley Montagu
#54. presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
Gore Vidal
#55. He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#59. He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logic to arrive at certain conclusions, and who is disguising from us no argument on either side.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#60. The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.
George Friedman
#61. Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman
Hans J. Morgenthau
#62. An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.
Rick Perlstein
#63. I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Benjamin Disraeli
#64. Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.
George Friedman
#65. It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Charles Caleb Colton
#66. He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
Stephen L. Carter
#70. This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.
Stephen L. Carter
#71. Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
Ken Follett
#72. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
Chris Matthews
