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#statesmanship

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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


#art #getting #harder #people #politicians

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


Kenneth Baker


#conferred #practice #statesmanship

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


#am #balance #begin #budget #complaining

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.


Robert Toombs


#enlarged #highest #interests #marked #most

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


John Grierson


#becomes #consequently #directive #forms #information

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 Disraeli


#statesmanship #equality

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


Hubert H. Humphrey


#concern #essence #future #past #probing

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.


Milton Friedman


#man #statesmanship

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


#around #by the people #chaotic #character #country

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.


Walter Lippmann


#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once






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