There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

- Adi Godrej

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

- Hector Hugh Munro

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

- Samantha Power