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...
I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.
(n.) The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passi...
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logi...
Learn to think continentally.
presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.