I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
I am not a professional politician.
I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.
It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.