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First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.
I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Boris is a naturally energetic and optimistic politician. And when he goes on the campaign trail that just becomes so evident.
Joe Lieberman is my least favorite politician of all time, excluding President Franklin Pierce (he just annoys me - not sure why).
Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.
Voting for a politician is very different then saying you like somebody or don't like somebody.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.
The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'
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.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
I'm not prepared to be governor of New York. I'm a radio guy; I do a radio show. A radio show is entertainment. You need to move it along. When does a politician move anything along?
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.
A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.
If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.
As a politician, I should expect sharp challenge from those who disagree with my decisions.
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'
I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.
I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.
I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
If truth be told, certainly culturally, I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, because I've never really been a massively tribal politician.
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
I've said all along we need a chief executive, not a chief politician, in the White House.
I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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