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
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger 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
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.” — A.E. Samaan 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
“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is… — Queen Elizabeth II 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
“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary… — Stanley Hoffmann 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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 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
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. — Kenneth Baker Copy Share Image
