Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership...
A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation- an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities...
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.
Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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.