Quotes About Statesmanship

I admire President Obama's class and measure.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.

When you see Obama and Trump shake hands and seem to show respect to one another - that is what we need.

If some Church dignitaries should misuse religious ceremonies or religious teaching to injure their own nation, their opponents should never take the same road and fight them with the same weapons... To a political leader, the religious teachings and practices of his people should be sacred and inviolable. Otherwise he shouldn't be a statesman but a reformer-if he has the necessary qualities for such a task!

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

To know [John Quincy Adams] is not to love him. It is, however, to admire him greatly.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

A work of statesmanship that will affect India and Indian history for many a long year. It is nothing less than the pulling back of 62 millions of people (India's Muslim population at the time) from joining the ranks of the seditious opposition (the Congress).

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

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

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

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

The greatest statesmen are those able at once to preserve and reform.