One can judge between candidates by remembering Georges Pompidou’s remark that a statesman is a politician who puts himself at his country’s service, whereas a politician is a statesman who puts the country at his own service—or that of a group or class, usually his own.

— A. C. Grayling Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002)

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