Charles Haughey was undoubtedly a great statesman...By far the most gifted politician of his generation,
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Fintan O'Toole, "A Life and Legacy". Irish Times, 14th June 2006.Charles Haughey
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Harold was, above all else, a great political survivor, a fine politician if, perhaps, never truly a statesman.
Harold Wilson
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
Undoubtedly some men are more gifted than others, and are marked out for more studious lives. But the work of such men is not to do others' thinking for them, but to help them to think more vigorously and effectually. Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. The light and life which spring up in one soul are to be spread far and wide. Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his, who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less-favoured brother.
William Ellery (preacher) Channing
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.
Bill Clinton
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