The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely…

— Salvador Dali

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and…

— Wesley Clark

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it…

— Thomas E. Mann

There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of…

— Eric Foner

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

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in…

— James Russell Lowell

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

— George Bernard Shaw

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon…

— Walter Lippmann

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

— Enoch Powell

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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