Done Quote by Antony Jay

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

— Malcolm X

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

— Boris Yeltsin

A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.

— Terry Mosher

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

— Rahul Gandhi

“Government is about principles. And the principle is, never act on principle.’ ‘Politicians must be allowed to panic. They need activity. It is their…

— Ashwin Sanghi

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would…

— John George Nicolay

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

“As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the reasonableness of…

— Thomas Paine

Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's…

— Alan Siegel

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

— Jean Baudrillard

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

— Gore Vidal

“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.”

— Jon Meacham