Quotes About Power

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.

If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.

Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

The politician is your best friend - he always wants to be there when he's asking for your vote. But then, often, he doesn't have time for you when he gets into office. To me, it's the opposite. They should listen to you more when they're actually in office.

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

I cannot throw my core values into a dustbin as some do for the sake of power and position. What kind of a politician that would make me then?

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

No politician wants to be challenged. They all say they want to be, but we all want to be anointed.