You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
History is the school of statesmanship.
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.
Learn to think impartially.