“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. — Kenneth Baker Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along… — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
“in statesmanship, too great a preoccupation to avoid the errors of the past makes it likely that you will fall into the… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“To recall a voter’s name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.” — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
