Words matter. These are the best Statesman Quotes from famous people such as Eisaku Sato, Dorothea Dix, Saul David, Ambrose Bierce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.
It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
You hit a certain age, and you haven’t died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I’m not keeling over.
This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what’s happening in the world, and I don’t believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.
I very much wanted to be editor of the ‘New Statesman!’ But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months’ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.
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.
The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
I was working at the ‘Evening Standard’ when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the ‘New Statesman.’ I remember thinking, ‘That’s perfect.’ It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work – so I applied for it and got it.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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.
A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
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.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you’re abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
I think the first person to call me ‘Britain’s Obama’ was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at a conference; it was very flattering but it made me cringe slightly.
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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 feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
I’ve written for ‘The Times’ because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The ‘New Statesman’ magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn’t want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
