Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick MacGill

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.
John Podesta

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
Jay-Z

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
Bianca Jagger

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?
Robert Novak

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
Michelangelo Antonioni

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
Lucas Papademos

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
Charles Farrar Browne

I am not a politician.
Erskine Bowles

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
Peter Tosh

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
Pervez Musharraf

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
Meg Whitman

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
Pauline Hanson

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
Harold H. Greene

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
Peter Mandelson

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.
Meg Whitman

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!
Thierry Henry