A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.
I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.