Statesmanship Quotes

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

Francesco Guicciardini

Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

Stephen L. Carter

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.

Christopher Hitchens

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