Ability Quote by Walter Lippmann

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

— William Rounseville Alger

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

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at…

— Georges Pompidou

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

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" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.

— George W. Bush

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

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

— Abraham Lincoln

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

— 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