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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. Otto von Bismarck

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

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Otto von Bismarck

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Robert Dallek

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Charles de Gaulle

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Henry Kissinger

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

Ronald Steel

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.

Eugene Jarecki

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Indira Gandhi

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Dean Acheson

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

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

Erich Fromm

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

Susan Bysiewicz

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.

Eisaku Sato

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.

A. J. P. Taylor

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Will Durant

If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.

James Carville

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

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.

Stanley Baldwin

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

Harry S Truman

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

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Pierre Laval

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

Bob Edwards

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

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.

Claire Tomalin

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Edmund Burke

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

David Lloyd George

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.

Paul Johnson

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson I

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.

Tom Paulin

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Augustus Hare

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.

Óscar Arias