What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.
I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.
I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.
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.