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You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
My view of Magneto is that he's the terrorist who might someday evolve into a statesman.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.
No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
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.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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.
Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.