...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt 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
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. — Enoch Powell 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
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner 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
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
President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups… — Frank Underhill Copy Share Image
“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy… — John Lewis 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 people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants.… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
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