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.

George Bernard Shaw

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. Taylorburak

History Anger Who

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

Abba Eban

Men Will Who

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

Adlai Stevenson I

Wit Who Very

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.

Alan Arkin

Age You Use

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

Ambrose Bierce

Politics Wit Wishes

Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.

Andrew Cuomo

Wonderful Wonder Won

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

Andrew Neil

Change Would Wing

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

Zen Virtuous Virtue

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Arlen Specter

You T Statesman

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

Them T Statesman

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

Them T Statesman

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.

Black Thought

Experience Youthful Youth

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

Bob Edwards

Men T Statesmen

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

Charles de Gaulle

Chance Willing Will

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Art Table T

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Che Guevara

Wed Vision Unnecessary

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.

Chris Christie

Year Today Taking

My view of Magneto is that he's the terrorist who might someday evolve into a statesman.

Chris Claremont

Who View Terrorist

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.

Chuka Umunna

Art Very Tin

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

Work Working Week

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

David Lloyd George

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

Dean Acheson

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.

Dorothea Dix

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Earl Wilson

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

Edmund Burke

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

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Ellen Key

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

Erich Fromm

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

Erik Larson

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

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

Eugene Jarecki

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Harold MacMillan

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

Harry S Truman

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.

Heather Brooke

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

Henry Kissinger

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Indira Gandhi

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

J. William Fulbright

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

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

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.

James Russell Lowell

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

John Connally

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

John Grierson

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker

We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since.

Melvyn Bragg

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Michael Foot

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.

Michael Kelly