Difficulty Quote by Nikita Khrushchev

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

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

— Anonymous

“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought…

— Tony Blair

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

— Peter De Vries

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is…

— Anonymous

“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

— Sophia Bush

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

— Michael Heseltine

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

— Harry S Truman

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his private thoughts,…

— Charles Krauthammer

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something…

— Richard J. Daley