The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.