You can see why this impolitic ex-lieutenant governor did not last long as a politician.
His status as a man of lifelong privilege is probably his major liability as a politician.
But, you know, as a candidate or as a politician, it's just not possible.
He seems to be happiest as a politician addressing huge crowds of adoring fans.
As a politician, this Transport Secretary may have to draw on his reserves of Midlands pragmatism.
"I like to think of myself as a politician who happens to be a woman, " she said.
But, as a politician, he would like to do everything to deter further job-seekers, invited or otherwise.
She may think it's slightly strange that some people might like to earn their living as a politician.
People often think of Huckabee as a politician or as a former preacher.
He says that no profession other than the ministry could have prepared him for his role as a politician.
He liked to say that De Gaulle was one of his heroes, but as a politician rather than a soldier.
The war-time prime minister served as a politician in Dundee between 1908 and 1922, when prohibitionist Edwin Scrymgeour swept to victory.
As a politician, anytime you are defending your views, you are losing.
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However serious the charge, as long as a politician is not convicted, he or she can stay in office under Indian law.
And as a politician whose name won't ever appear on a ballot again, it's hard to see the downside in sticking by his principles.
If your goal as a politician is to spend as much as possible, you have to make every spending cut as disastrous as possible.
Mr Brown's evasions over the Ecclestone affair and the budget leak are at odds with the image he projects as a politician of moral incorruptibility.
Obama congratulated his rival John McCain and praised McCain's service to the country as a politician and Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam.
As a politician, he was honest but outspoken, principled but stubborn.
The making of Mr Blair as a politician of the first rank was his stint as shadow home secretary after Labour had lost the 1992 election.
This creates an inherent conflict of interest, as a politician can be negotiating regarding the pay and benefits for his own political supporters at public expense.
According to a New York Times profile, Ms. Quinn comes across as a politician who embraces authority (her own) and likes things to go one way (hers).
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As a politician or a commentator you can choose to ignore that argument but you cannot deny the logic underlying it or where it is taking us to.
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It does join Queens with the Manhattan congressional district he once represented, and he has been quoted calling it a "work-horse bridge, " an image he identified with as a politician.
In fact there was a day back in 1977 when I woke up as a politician with no thought of being anything else, but went to bed that night about to become a political interviewer.
Since late last year Mr Khan has enjoyed a surge in his popularity as a politician, propelling him to the lead position in a poll six months ago by the International Republican Institute, an American pollster.
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He is a tax expert who favours radical reform, but he has no experience as a politician and his views are at odds with the CDU's programme, not least the plan to raise the rate of VAT.
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