“The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.”
Earl Wilson
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”
David Lloyd George
“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.”
Bob Edwards
“The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.”
Austin O'Malley
“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”
Abraham Lincoln
