Art Quote by Fletcher Knebel

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next…

— Anonymous

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at…

— Georges Pompidou

There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to…

— Óscar Arias

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

— David Lloyd George

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

— William Rounseville Alger

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been…

— Harry S. Truman

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Harry S Truman

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon…

— Walter Lippmann

Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and…

— Colin Powell

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

— J. William Fulbright