#esma

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

— Milton Friedman

#man #statesmanship

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

— Indira Gandhi

#father #i #i am #political #saint

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#statesman #take #true #who #willing

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

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

— Pierre Laval

#assistance #friend #help #man #neither

Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#certainly #doing #got #guys #mind

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

#dangerous thing #history #how #i #learned

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

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his

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

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often