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You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
Arlen Specter
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Former United States Senator
Knows
Politician
Statesmen
Dead
Statesman
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Will Durant
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Writer
Moralist
Statesmen
Afford
Statesman
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
J. William Fulbright
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Former United States Senator
Politics
Firsts
Political
Statesman
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When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
John Connally
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Former Governor Of Texas
Politics
Office
Political
Statesman
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Politics
Dull
Requirements
Requirement
Statesman
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Austin O'malley
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Politician
Sheep
Skins
Statesman
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Charles De Gaulle
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Former President Of The French Republic
Chance
Risk
Statesmen
Willing
Statesman
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist
Scholar
Soldier
Producer
Priest
Statesman
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson I
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Former Vice President Of The United States
Approaches
Open
Mouth
Question
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
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Psychologist
Politics
Nerd
Political
Revolutionary
Successful
Unsuccessful
Criminal
Statesman
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
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Author
Election
Next
Political
Politician
Thinking
Witty
Generation
Next Election
Statesman
Thinks
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards
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Journalist
Politician
Now
More
He
Dead
Statesman
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Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.
Saul David
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Perhaps
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi
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Former Prime Minister Of India
Political
Saint
Woman
Statesman
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson
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Baseball Player
Politics
Political
Way
Elder
Fastest
Statesman
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My view of Magneto is that he's the terrorist who might someday evolve into a statesman.
Chris Claremont
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Comic Book Writer
Someday
Terrorist
Statesman
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot
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Journalist
Men
Politics
Opinion
Uncommon
Constitutional
Opinions
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The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry Kissinger
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Vision
Bridge
Nation
Gap
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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Michael Foot
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Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Politics
Intervening
Political
Rising
Period
Elder
Passed
Statesman
Whatsoever
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poet
Peace
War
Delight
Games
Jest
Lawyer
Trade
Assassin
Hired
Priest
Statesman
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
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Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Politics
Agree
Agreement
Political
Politician
Statesman
Whose
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It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
Pierre Laval
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French Politician
Men
Asking
Assistance
Helping
Neither
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold Macmillan
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Home
Politics
Politician
Home Always Yourself
Abroad
Statesman
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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Statesman
Ability
Disposition
Taken
Together
Would Be
Improve
Standard
Preserve
Statesman
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
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33Rd U.s. President
Government
Politician
Years
Dead
Statesman
Understands
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I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.
Trent Franks
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U.s. Representative
Chosen
Honored
Astonished
Statesman
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No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
Andrew Neil
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Left Wing
Magazine
No-One
Right Mind
Statesman
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
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Philosopher
Positive
Quality
War
Crime
Dangerous
Delight
Merit
Political
Remembrance
Soldier
Captain
Statesman
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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
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Historian
Statesman
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
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Poet
Truth
War
Silent
Thinking
Mouth
Statesman
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
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Lawyer
Given
Presidency
Statesmen
Seventy
Statesman
Turned
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I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
Paul Johnson
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Journalist
Boys
Editors
Littles
Prime Minister
Editor
Minister
Statesman
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto Von Bismarck
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Statesman
Events
Leap
Political
Steps
Waiting
Garment
Wait
Grasp
Hears
Statesman
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The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
P. J. O'rourke
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Satirist
Despise
Editors
Must People New
People New America
Applications
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
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Diplomat
Ears
Elegance
Flexibility
Movement
Posture
Ear
Glued
Ground
Neither
Nor
Permanently
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The opponents of Mr. Modi can never change the mind of the people who have accepted and adored him as a statesman and national leader.
Suresh Gopi
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Accepted
Opponents
Change Mind People
Adored
Mr
Statesman
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Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.
Andrew Cuomo
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Governor Of New York
Former
Dearly
Missed
Statesman
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
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Journalist
Politics
Conservative
Distinguished
Enamored
Evil
Political
Wish
Who
Them
Evils
Existing
Liberal
Others
Replace
Statesman
Wishes
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You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.
Alan Arkin
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Actor
Applause
Died
Hit
Certain Age
Elder
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That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.
Dorothea Dix
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Nurse
Consistent
Honorable
Count
Indeed
Patriots
Statesman
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare
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Writer
Firm
Holding On
Horse
Opinion
Public Opinion
Reins
Doubtless
Follow
Follows
Hold
Guiding
Horses
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It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
Eisaku Sato
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Former Prime Minister Of Japan
Government
Concern
Country
Hair
Helm
Importance
Natural
Security
Question
Statesman
Utmost
Utmost Importance
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann
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Writer
Learning
Politics
Fervent
Glowing
Indispensable
Opposition
Sensible
Good Always Human
Human Being
Learns
Statesman
Supporters
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A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
Stanley Baldwin
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Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
Courage
Patience
Time
Believe
Months
Political
Six
Vision
Second
Statesman
Third
Wants
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
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Force
Historian
Soldier
Time And Space
Urgency
Decisions
Space Time Mind
Make Up
Statesman
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It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.
Che Guevara
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Revolutionary
Castro
Path
Struggle
Triumph
Unnecessary
Vision
Owed
Possesses
Qualities
Statesman
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I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.
Black Thought
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Mc
Maturity
Drives
Elder
Statesman
Youthful
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
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Philosopher
Anxiety
Anxious
Character
Citizens
Disposition
Moral
Moral Character
Political
Produce
Virtue
Virtuous
Actions
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Performance
Namely
Statesman
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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
Toni Morrison
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Novelist
Gun
Literal
Nelson
Problem
Unbelievable
World
World Me Problems
Guns
Mandela
Solving
Statesman
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If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.
James Carville
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Commentator
Election
Politician
Tracking
Consultant
Next Election
Poll
Statesman
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