Audience Quote by George Will

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

— Peter De Vries

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

— Will Rogers

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 or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw;…

— Mary McCarthy

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do”

— Michelangelo Saez

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions.…

— Ron Paul

The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have…

— Edward R. Murrow

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Lucy Stone

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

— Charles de Gaulle

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

— Andy Rooney