Government Quote by Harry S. Truman

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

— Harry S Truman

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

A statesman is a politician who has been dead ten or fifteen years

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

— David Lloyd George

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

— Anonymous

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get…

— Dick Gregory

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

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

— Arlen Specter

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or…

— James Harrington

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 man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

— Peter De Vries