A Quote by Harold MacMillan

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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Abroad Almost Always Feel Home Politician Statesman Yourself

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Harold MacMillan
English - Celebrity
February 10, 1894 - December 29, 1986

A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

James Freeman Clarke

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

Hillary Clinton

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Harry S. Truman

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Harry S Truman

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

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.