Hillary Clinton Quotes

The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.

A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

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

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

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

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

Of all our public men of today he stands first in my reverence & admiration, & the next one stands two-hundred-&-twenty-fifth. He is the only statesman we have now. ... Cleveland drunk is a more valuable asset to this country than the whole batch of the rest of our public men sober. He is high-minded; all his impulses are great & pure & fine. I wish we had another of this sort.

As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.

I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.

This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.

So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president. But he was not actively malign, in the sense that he did what he thought was right. I don't think this guy cares what's right. I think he's in it for self-aggrandizement, for profit, and for power.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.