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HOH Word of the Week: Politician

By Warren Rojas
Posted March 23, 2015 at 5:00am

“A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.” — President Harry S. Truman explaining a very important distinction (and why he was happy to be in the former camp) in 1958 per “The Political Bible of Humorous Quotations from American Politics” by Rich Rubino.  


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