The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.