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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.
