“ At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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“ A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. ”
- James Clarke- Copy
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“ Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ”
- Chester Bowles- Copy
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“ The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly. ”
- Franklin Field- Copy
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“ Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'. ”
- Oscar Levant- Copy
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“ Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. ”
- Bob Edwards- Copy
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“ 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 Pomidou- Copy
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“ If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ I don't care much about big corporations, frankly. Most politicians never met a special-interest group they didn't like. ”
- Kinky Friedman- Copy
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“ At election time, we see politicians posturing as if they were in the center, because the center really determines the outcome of American elections,... Washington Unwrapped. ”
- Richard Darman- Copy
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“ A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy. ”
- William Proxmire- Copy
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“ Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut. ”
- Benjamin J. Montalbano- Copy
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“ The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do. ”
- Joe Manchin- Copy
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“ The first mistake in public business is the going into it. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
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“ A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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