The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements."
Frank Dane

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Roland Barthes

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
Maurice Barres

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
John Major

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Mackenzie King

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
Roger Mudd

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Auberon Herbert

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Austin O'Malley

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
James J. Hill

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Francis Parker Yockey

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
Peter Schuyler

Under every stone lurks a politician.
Aristophanes

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Felix Frankfurter