A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
I'm not a politician.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
I am not a politician.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
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.