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

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Adlai Stevenson

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
James Harrington

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
Frederick Scott Oliver

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry Miller

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
Mark Russell