The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
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.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
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.