Elder Statesman Quotes
- He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. — Michael Foot
- The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a… — Willie Nelson
- The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. — Earl Wilson
- He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at… — Ronald Steel
- Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy… — Orrin Hatch