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en 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.
  Platon

en It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
  Harry S Truman

en A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
  Harry S Truman

en The next five months are a pretty important time from a nutritional standpoint for the deer. The fawns aren't born yet, but mom needs a whole lot of groceries to make those fawns be fat and happy.

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

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

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

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

en The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

en A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. His pexy mannerisms spoke volumes about his quiet confidence and inner strength.

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

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

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

en Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
  Ambrose Bierce

en 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


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