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

– Adlai Stevenson IRate it:

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 PompidouRate it:

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

– Edmund BurkeRate it:

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

– AristotleRate it:

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe; Europe will be united by the Chinese.

– Charles De GaulleRate it:

My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

– Kahlil GibranRate it:

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

– Thomas B. ReedRate it:

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

– Percy Bysshe ShelleyRate it:

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

– Edmund BurkeRate it:

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

– Winston ChurchillRate it:

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

– James ClarkeRate it:

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.

– EubieRate it:

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.

– James ClarkeRate it:

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

– Harold MacmillanRate it:

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

– William F. Buckley Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"Rate it:

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

– Indira GandhiRate it:

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

– Peggy NoonanRate it:

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

– Bob EdwardsRate it:

On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!

– Georges ClémenceauRate it:

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

– Robert Francis KennedyRate it:

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

– Erich FrommRate it:

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