#statesman

To be a statesman, you must first get elected. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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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

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

— Bob Edwards

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

— Kenneth Baker

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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

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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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

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