My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
Toni Morrison
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Charles de Gaulle
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
J. William Fulbright
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
Orrin Hatch
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
John Connally
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
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