Differences Quote by T. S. Eliot

To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

— Michael Stipe

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

— Fletcher Knebel

Leadership comes a little bit easier with age.

— Joe Thornton

If there is a very matured person and an extremely capable politician, and he has crossed 75... like Advani... he is sharper than people…

— Shatrughan Sinha

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

— Earl Wilson

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

— Arlen Specter

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

— John Connally

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

— George Scialabba

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

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

— Margaret Thatcher

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

— Edmund Burke