Ability Quote by Edmund Burke

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A…

— Edmund Burke

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

— John Connally

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

— John Stuart Mill

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the…

— Aristotle

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces,…

— Malcolm Fraser

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn…

— Ronald Reagan

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

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

— William Rounseville Alger

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

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

— J. William Fulbright

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

— Abraham Lincoln

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on…

— Woodrow Wilson