Definition of Politician

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Politician

One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.

One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician.

Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.

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Politician Quotations

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

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

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

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

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin

Politician Translations

politician in Afrikaans is politikus
politician in Dutch is politicus, staatsman
politician in French is politicien, un homme politique
politician in German is Politiker
politician in Hungarian is politikus
politician in Italian is politico
politician in Swedish is politiker

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