Famous quotes by Statesmans

"The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"There is not love where there is no will"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started, it could not end otherwise"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"In crises, the most daring course is often safest"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Even a paranoid can have enemies"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

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