Asks Quote by Dick Morris

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

— John Major

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

— Lucy Stone

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only…

— John Galsworthy

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

— Terry Mosher

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

— Scott Pelley

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a…

— Bernard Arnault

Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.

— Nicola Sturgeon

You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive…

— Paul Begala

The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who…

— Jed Mercurio

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

— Gary Johnson