The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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.
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.
From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.
I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
No politician has a 50-year horizon.
Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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 part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
