A Quote by Thomas Reed

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Thomas Reed

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Thomas Reed
American - Politician
October 18, 1839 - December 7, 1902

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 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

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Arlen Specter

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards

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 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

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

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

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai Stevenson I

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

Bill Vaughan

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Earl Wilson

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Harold MacMillan

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

Manmohan Singh

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

Howard W. Hunter

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

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