The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.
I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.