Quotes About Statesman

Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.

The opponents of Mr. Modi can never change the mind of the people who have accepted and adored him as a statesman and national leader.

I quite like being a 'comedy elder statesman.' I am a big fan, I go to watch loads of new comics, and I like the fact that they don't go, 'Why are you here?'

Quick with advice and always caring, the 41st President of the United States was a statesmen, a role model, and an American hero.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Franklin had been serving his country, as it headed toward revolution, in roles befitting a man of his age: diplomat, elder statesman, sage, and dozing delegate.

My father showed the exact sort of talent for a statesman. He could have divided Poland as easily as an orange, or trod on Ireland as quietly and systematically as any living.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

DB: Well, in a way, this is also the difference of the politician and the statesman, isn't it? A statesman is somebody with a vision. EWS: Somebody like Nehru or Mandela who has the vision and, at the same time, the capacity to carry it out, whatever that might involve … DB:

It is widely known that whenever Senator Johnson feels the urge to act the statesman at the cost of a little political capital," WFB wrote in June 1958, "he lies down until he gets over it.

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try to catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Lincoln in his element

The Statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Let us learn our lessons.

any poet who writes for the world beyond his own threshold should have something in his nature of the statesman.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

To put the military factors in their proper perspective when deciding the political objective is a task for the statesman alone. Were he to wait until his armed forces were completely ready for war, then he would never act because armed forces are never ready – nor are they ever to be considered ready.

Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.

I have great admiration for Atal Bihari Vajapyee.

The count, who overheard this, laughed as he stood with folded arms under the porte-cochere, a little behind the other travellers. However nonsensical these lads might be, the grave statesman envied their very follies; he liked their bragging and enjoyed the fun of their lively chatter.

Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.

Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.