The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

And I think it's a prudent responsible way given the scale of the emergency the scale of the damage still facing America that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

To act coolly intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.