In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To recall a voter’s name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.” — Dale Carnegie 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
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
...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
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton 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
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can… — James A. Garfield 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
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.” — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
