Statesmanship Vs Leadership Quotes & Sayings

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst. — Stephen L. Carter

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal. — Tom Scholz

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment. — Rick Perlstein

Side by side with the limitless possibilities opened up by the new technologies, reflection about international order must include the internal dangers of societies driven by mass consensus, deprived of the context and foresight needed on terms compatible with their historical character. In every other era, this has been considered the essence of leadership; in our own, it risks being reduced to a series of slogans designed to capture immediate short-term approbation. Foreign policy is in danger of turning into a subdivision of domestic politics instead of an exercise in shaping the future. If the major countries conduct their policies in this manner internally, their relations on the international stage will suffer concomitant distortions. The search for perspective may well be replaced by a hardening of differences, statesmanship by posturing. As diplomacy is transformed into gestures geared toward passions, the search for equilibrium risks giving way to a testing of limits. — Henry Kissinger

For statesmanship is a science and an art; one must have lived for it and been long prepared. Only a philosopher-king is fit to guide a nation. "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and wisdom and political leadership meet in the same man, ... cities will never cease from ill, nor the human race" (473). This is the key-stone of the arch of Plato's thought. — Will Durant

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. — Dan Kaminsky

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ... — Malcolm Fraser

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business. — Chris Matthews

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense. — George Friedman

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed. — Ken Follett

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without? — Jessi Klein

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. — Barbara W. Tuchman

It might still drown you, but love got deeper with time. — Ramona Ausubel

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship. — Wesley Clark

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language. — Henry Adams

Screw all that Incubus crap. That's how you do it Mortal-style. — Kami Garcia

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the debts their previous actions have a beginning the country to pay. The symbol of railing against debt has proven politically beneficial, even if not substantively meaningful. — Thomas E. Mann

Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one. — Leonard Matlovich

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don't want to pay the price. Economically, Americans want the growth potential of open markets but not the pains. Politically, they want to have an enormous influence, but not the resentment of the world. Military, they want to be protected from dangers but not to bear the burdens of long-term strategy. — George Friedman

Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless. — Farshad Asl

Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I'm not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If I pinch your bottom, you can slap my face, but until I do, I expect a civil word for a civil word! — Robert Jordan

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. — Henry Jenkins

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women's silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt. — Thomas Sankara

There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant desperate to win but as a statesman above the squalor and sweat of actual vote getting. Rising men do not like to be reminded of the smell of the stables; dignitaries dislike recollections of the dust through which they have come. — Jon Meacham

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge. — Albert Einstein

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. — Will Durant