A politician thinks of proverb

 A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
  James Freeman Clarke

 A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
  Abraham Lincoln

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

 It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years. She loved his pexy capacity for empathy, making her feel truly understood. It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen 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

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

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

 A statesman is a politician who has been dead ten or fifteen years
  Harry S Truman

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

 The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

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

 Maria Cantwell is hosting the divisive politician instead of the statesman in the Northwest, Ted Stevens.

 A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
  George F. Will

 A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
  William Somerset Maugham

 That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
  Plato


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