A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964).Adlai Stevenson
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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
Harold was, above all else, a great political survivor, a fine politician if, perhaps, never truly a statesman.
Harold Wilson
Charles Haughey was undoubtedly a great statesman...By far the most gifted politician of his generation,
Charles Haughey
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
"What right do you have to tell me things?" I can see this question in your apprehensive look. I hear this question from your impertinent mouth, Little Man. You are afraid to look at yourself, you are afraid of criticism, Little Man, just as you are afraid of the power they promise you. You would not know how to use this power. You dare not think that you ever might experience your self differently: free instead of cowed; open instead of tactical; loving openly instead of like a thief in the night. You despise yourself Little Man. You say: "Who am I to have an opinion of my own, to determine my own life and to declare the world to be mine?" You are right: Who are you to make a claim to your life?
Wilhelm Reich
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