The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

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

I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

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.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

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

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.