People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
Lukas Foss

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B. R. Ambedkar

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
Daniel Hannan

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
Lyn Nofziger

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
Meg Whitman

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Mo Udall

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Theodore White

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
Edward Koch

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
Auberon Herbert

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson

The first black president will be a politician who is black.
Doug Wilder

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
John George Nicolay

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
Howard Dean

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
Earl Long

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi