Statesmanship Vs Leadership Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

#3. True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

William Rounseville Alger

#4. I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

Andre Previn

#5. Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

Henry Adams

#10. 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

#11. The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

Annie Dillard

#12. He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Stephen L. Carter

#13. I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

Steven Yeun

#14. 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

#15. I have been ripped open. I know what it's like to be unwanted. I am familiar with the un-pretty feelings we are sometimes greeted with in the mirror.

Alexandra Elle

#16. No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

Will Durant

#17. Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Ken Follett

#18. Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dwight D. Eisenhower