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

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Joyce Carol Oates

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
Harry S. Truman

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
Dorothy Hamill

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
Larry Hagman

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
Bernadette Devlin

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
Antonio Tabucchi

My mother was a politician in my formative years.
Antonia Fraser

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.
Helen Suzman

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan Rudolph