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Quotes about Statesmanship

Here was another peculiar Trump attribute: an inability to see his actions the way most others saw them. Or to fully appreciate how people expected him to behave. The notion of the presidency as an institutional and political concept, with an emphasis on ritual and propriety and semiotic messaging—statesmanship—was quite beyond him.
- Michael Wolff
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To recall a voter's name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.
- Dale Carnegie
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Aristotle
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.
- George W. Bush