The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
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.
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.
I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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