Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.
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.
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.
To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.