I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
Amy Goodman

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
Terence Stamp

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.
Dean Koontz

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
Mark Russell

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Millicent Fawcett

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
Michael Kinsley

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
Len Deighton

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
Robert Taft

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
Frederick Scott Oliver

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Jean Baudrillard

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
David Korten

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
John Keegan