| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1405 |
| AUTHOR: | Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) |
| QUOTATION: | I’m proud that I’m a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HARRY S. TRUMAN, impromptu remarks before the Reciprocity Club, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1958, as reported by the New York World-Telegram and Sun, April 12, 1958, p. 4. |
| SUBJECTS: | Politicians |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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