Statesman Totally Explained

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A statesman or stateswoman is usually a politician or other notable figure of state who has had a long and respected career in politics at the national and international level. As a term of respect, it's usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term.
When a politician retires, he or she's often referred to as an elder statesman/ stateswoman by his or her supporters.

Quotations

Aristotle -- "What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
Harry S. Truman -- "A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years."
Henry Kissinger -- "The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between experience and vision."
London's Evening News, July 21, 1960 -- "There will be need for a new word. Presumably, we'll have to call her a Stateswoman. This is the suffragette's dream come true." (On Sirimavo Bandaranaike's election to Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, the first such woman leader in the world, though other women heads of state and government and other women political leaders had been referred to as "statesmen".)
Milton Friedman -- "One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."
Otto von Bismarck -- “I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.”

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