No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.
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.
In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.
The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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!
The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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.
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
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.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been, and I think I'm a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I've never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don't think so.
