Top 35 Statesman Vs Politician Quotes
#1. A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
#2. The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley
#3. A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
Thomas Reed
#4. It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
George Washington
#5. Marriage is a contract. Love is non-negotiable.
Jessica Zafra
#6. And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home.
Rachel Cusk
#7. At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold Macmillan
#9. Being creative is good for the mind... I write because I don't want to take Prozac!
Flossy Abraham
#10. Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.
Newell Dwight Hillis
#12. A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.
James Freeman
#13. Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards
#14. Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.
Lavrentiy Beria
#15. A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
Bill Vaughan
#16. A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
Abraham Lincoln
#17. A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
#18. George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.
Ilka Chase
#19. There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
Robert Dallek
#20. A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.
Rick Perlstein
#21. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#22. Rider/Host relationship is not always one-sided. In fact, many benefits are extended to the Host as well. It can survive up to double the life expectancy of a normal human (between 150 and 200 years), depending on a number of
Pete Kahle
#23. That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Plato
#24. I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.
Bill Parcells
#25. A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
#26. A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Georges Pompidou
#27. The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
Edmund Burke
#28. I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
Alexis Denisof
#29. The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
#30. You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job ... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#31. I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.
J.M. Coetzee
#33. A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#34. A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
#35. There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.
Oscar Arias
