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.
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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.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
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A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
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A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
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Narendrabhai.. down to earth
He is down to earth man
Best Gujarati politician ever known
Carries mission for people and own
All the drawbacks even if remained unknown
Right from the days of independence struggle
Gujarat has provided leadership without any trouble
Gandhi (ji) * by his virtue became father of the nation
*Sardar vallabhbhai Patel proved statesman and iron man
India failed to excel in international field thereafter
We were reduced to laughing stock and termed as beggars
India needed strong leadership and proves to the world
We shall not remain mere spectator to different fold
India is facing uphill task
Speak different and put on the mask
No one can believe any politician
The claim we are not magician
We need no magic over night
But certainly to have will power to fight
It may be blamed by rightists or leftists
But right person always insists
*Narendrbhai Modi is Sufi person
Speaks of common man with solid reasons
He has nothing to hide from world over
No shoddy deals, no assets to hide and cover
Such a noble person is leading state of Gujarat
The state has provided progress with slow and steady start
World has realized his statesmanship and politicians art
To live with harmony and provide peace is dominant part
Let people consciously think and search the answer
What has he done to Gujarat and provided stable cover
Narmada River has changed the desert into green field
Neither Gujarat needed not out side help nor used power to yield
Such is noble and gifted man from Gujarat bastion
There is no parallel to his name that raises any question
He needs laurels and applauses for selfless service
The state in particular and nation in general needs action with promises
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
quote by Kahlil Gibran
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
quote by David Lloyd George
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The Final Tax
Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:
'What can we tax that is not paying?
We’re taxing every blessed thing—
Here’s what our people are defraying:
'Tariff tax, income tax,
Tax on retail sales,
Club tax, school tax,
Tax on beers and ales,
'City tax, county tax,
Tax on obligations,
War tax. wine tax,
Tax on corporations,
'Brewer tax, sewer tax,
Tax on motor cars,
Bond tax, stock tax,
Tax on liquor bars,
'Bridge tax, check tax,
Tax on drugs and pills,
Gas tax, ticket tax,
Tax on gifts in wills,
'Poll tax, dog tax,
Tax on money loaned,
State tax, road tax,
Tax on all things owned,
'Stamp tax, land tax,
Tax on wedding ring,
High tax, low tax,
Tax on everything!'
Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:
'That is the list, a pretty bevy;
No thing or act that is untaxed;
There’s nothing more on which to levy.'
Said Statesman Z to Statesman A:
'The deficit each moment waxes;
This is no time for us to fail—
We will decree a tax on taxes.'
poem by Ellis Parker Butler
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Our Nation
Look at our Nation,
Defiled by discrimination,
Making a separation,
Between the present generation;
The younger generation,
Must take into consideration,
And give some useful information,
Using their modulus calculation;
To remove the obstruction,
Caused by the politician,
without any co-operation,
among the people of our Nation
Now, oncoming revolution,
Will provide a path of salvation,
For our Indian Nation,
To which I pay my ovation.
poem by Sangeetha Senthilkumar
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
quote by Robert Francis Kennedy
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