If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The politicians were talking themselves red white and blue in the face.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.