Quotes About Statesmanship

It would be a 'tour de force' to do the two jobs, Clementine continued, 'like keeping a lot of balls in the air at the same time. After all, you want to be a Statesman, not a juggler.' Churchill had no intention of giving up his Air portfolio.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.

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

Every man in it is a great man, an orator, a critic, a statesman; and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

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.

So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.

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

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.