I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Benjamin DisraeliTag: politics statesmanship
The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.
Christopher HitchensTag: united-states hypocrisy television george-w-bush double-standards golf terrorism charm war-on-terror bill-clinton statesmanship dwight-d-eisenhower
The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTag: scifi wisdom politics science-fiction sci-fi politicians statesmanship power-struggle chi-ro-jin
Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.
George R.R. MartinTag: statesmanship
On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
James Russell LowellTag: politics common-sense statesmanship
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTag: experience adversity leadership statesmanship
Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman.
Hans J. MorgenthauTag: politics statesmanship
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