Statesman Quotes

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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