A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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.
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?
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.