Statesman Quotes

(in the late 1960s, on how it felt to be an elder statesman of comedy) Like an old jerk.

There`s an interesting parallel between Bush (George W. Bush) and Richard Nixon. While Nixon (Richard Nixon) was clearly a superior statesman and in many ways a more intelligent politician, what they share is a kind of boldness in how they emote their insecurities. What we`re finding with George Bush, part of what`s familiar to people and that adds to his likability for many, is that there`s a commonality of deep insecurity and his handling it with a kind of bravado. What they both did is handle things with a similar certainty - certainty being the `disease of kings`.

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

I`ve repeatedly said that Bill Clinton is neither a leader nor a statesman and I`ll say it again, ... I hope this prize will help change his mind.

War is the statesman`s game, the priest`s delight, the lawyer`s jest, the hired assassin`s trade.

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

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

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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.

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

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