A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Dean Koontz

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George Will

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
Emma Bonino

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.
Sun Myung Moon

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.
Conan O'Brien

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold MacMillan

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
Tom Mann

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
Peter Singer

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
Rebecca H. Davis

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
Karl Rove

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.
William Pierce