Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia, or vice versa, is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place, but it's not been satisfactory"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Let sleeping dogs lie"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"It has, from the beginning, been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home, and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"It has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war, all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

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