Ability Quote by Tariq Ali

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the…

— Max Weber

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

— Tom Coburn

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

Politicians are like bananas when they first come in they're green, then they turn yellow, and finally they're rotten!

— Nikhil Saluja

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

— Maxim Gorky

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

— Denis Healey

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

— Richard J. Needham

Presidential power is the power to persuade.

— Richard Neustadt

POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that,…

— Rick Bayan

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

— H. L. Mencken

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

— Austin O'Malley