Statesmanship Quotes

“Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what can be the mental norm of statesmanship where such a minority conquer the peace-lovers?”

“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.”

“To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.”

“No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.”

“Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.”

“Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.”