Quotes About Politician

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

I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

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?

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.

Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

I'm not prepared to be governor of New York. I'm a radio guy; I do a radio show. A radio show is entertainment. You need to move it along. When does a politician move anything along?

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.

I'm an entertainer, not a politician.

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

Jayalalithaaji was not just a politician: she was the messiah of the masses.

It is the era of Trump, and I'm just not a Trump-like politician.

But I don't feel that as a politician I'm hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with experiences that many of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are important to me don't seem to have changed hugely.

As a politician, I should expect sharp challenge from those who disagree with my decisions.

Manmohan Singh is the best politician India has seen. I can't say the same about him as an economist.

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician.

Joe Lieberman is my least favorite politician of all time, excluding President Franklin Pierce (he just annoys me - not sure why).

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.

I love my country, but it's a very hard life, the life of a politician.

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.