Come up Quote by George W. Bush

"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.

— George W. Bush

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

— Abraham Lincoln

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

— John Connally

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So…

— William Butler Yeats

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

— Charles de Gaulle

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

— J. William Fulbright

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

— Bob Edwards

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

— George Stillman Hillard

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

— James Freeman Clarke