A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
I'm an actor, I'm not a politician.
I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.
A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.
I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.
Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'
Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.
Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.
Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'
We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.