Statesman Quotes

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not. (Indira Gandhi)
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. View quote
David Lloyd George
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. View quote
Walter Bagehot
A politician ... is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. View quote
Erich Fromm
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. View quote
Michael Foot
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. (Charles de Gaulle)
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. View quote
Dean Acheson
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. View quote
Eisaku Sato
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. View quote
Georges Pompidou
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. View quote
Harry S. Truman
A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years. View quote
Harry S. Truman
He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman. View quote
David Lloyd George
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman. View quote
François Arago
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. View quote
W. H. Auden
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. View quote
Abigail Adams
A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. (John Dryden)
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning. View quote
André Maurois
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Real success in business is to be found in achievements comparable rather with those of the artist or the scientist, of the inventor or statesman. And the joys sought in the profession of business must be like their joys and not the mere vulgar satisfaction which is experienced in the acquisition of money, in the exercise of power or in the frivolous pleasure of mere winning. View quote
Louis Brandeis
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. View quote
Wendell Phillips