Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
I’m a role model as a footballer and not as a politician. I want to see myself as a footballer. People respect me for my performances. That’s why they support me, and I’m very thankful for that. But I’m not a politician.
Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.
What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician’s circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don’t say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.
I am not a politician. I contested to get Modi ji another seat.
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life’s knocks.
I have a political attitude, but I’m certainly not a politician.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn’t work. Hillary Clinton’s math doesn’t work; Donald’s math probably doesn’t work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.
Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has taken that social justice platform into politics.
Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.
In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the pardon can mean – not surprisingly – political gain.
Hey, I’m not a politician. I’m a ham. I love to give speeches.
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn’t care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn’t be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it’s not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.
Of course a politician’s promise isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
I spread the message of hope and of unity. That’s what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can’t tell you how to fix it. I’m a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.
A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.
As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we’re hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.
Anyone who knows anything about me should know by now I am certainly not exactly a good politician. I am also willing to admit to you now that I never went to any classes that had anything to do political science.
Can you imagine if it was like that: everything you’re doing as you grow up you’re wondering, ‘What is that going to mean if I ever end up being a politician?’ You wouldn’t have anybody except ruthlessly ambitious automatons going into politics.
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.
There are a lot of ways to make a positive impact on the community without necessarily being a politician.
Biden’s first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
I’m a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
Entering public life as a woman – be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist – makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who’s coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
I’m not a politician. I’m not a career politician.
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is ‘enough.’ Enough.
I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
Mr. Obama is the only popular politician left in the world. He would win an election in any one of the G-20 countries, and his fellow world leaders will do anything to take home a touch of that reflected popularity.
For any politician who didn’t enter office a wealthy man, nothing says ‘I take bribes’ like a Rolex watch.
I’m never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.
Anyone that chooses to be an actor or politician is making a choice to lead their life in the public eye.
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in – then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can’t criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike.
Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I’m just a politician’s son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that’s my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I’m happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.
If I were a Democrat, I’d be a career politician, so I’d enrich the Swamp while further bankrupting America.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
As a young politician, I voted against the return of Sinai and peace with Egypt. I was mistaken.
Though I’m a congresswoman by title, a politician I’ve never been.
Voting for a politician is very different then saying you like somebody or don’t like somebody.
