"There are a lot of artists who say I'm not a politician, " he said.
Netanyahu is nothing if not a politician, and he understands that alienating Obama can cost him his career.
I'm not a politician, and I don't envy anyone the rigors of a national campaign or the prospect of negotiating with Congress.
But I don't think there's not a politician out there who's going to say that they're not going to do something to fight terrorism.
As the interview ended, she put a consoling arm on my elbow, almost by way of an apology although Margaret Thatcher was not a politician who said sorry much.
And in this vacuum, one of the most popular public figures is not a politician but Arkady Gaydamak, a populist billionaire who spreads his money around like water and unashamedly proclaims his desire to be a kingmaker behind the scenes.
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It was a joke, taken grotesquely out of context, but not one a politician more finely attuned to the times and his own vulnerabilities would have made.
Not a heavyweight politician of Mr Ramaphosa's calibre, Mr Sexwale nevertheless had his eyes on the presidency and lapped up publicity.
Mrs Townsend is not a bad politician: well-informed, tactile and surprisingly nice.
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Ms Champion, chief executive of a children's hospice, said she was not a career politician and will serve "not for what I can get out of it but what I can put into it".
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Although Singh is the architect of India's recent economic reforms and is known to be incorruptible, he is not a career politician and can do little to bridge the yawning gap between the Congress and the masses.
So he's not a dumb politician.
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Lula is not just a charismatic politician but also, it seems, a lucky one.
And Mr Ivester is not as charming a politician as his predecessor, Roberto Goizueta.
The quintessential Washington insider, whose strength is his experience in government, he has started pretending not to be a politician.
The initial police charge-sheet last year did not list a single politician, and attempts were made to oust the main investigator.
"If I had to be concerned about my image, I should not have become a politician right from the beginning, " she said.
What neither foresaw was the possibility of a Tony Blair: a politician who was not a socialist, and who despised class politics, but who nonetheless found a way to lead the Labour Party without breaking it apart.
"To me it is as simple as this: I do not believe that a politician who does such violence to the lifetime savings of millions of hardworking British people can be the right prime minister for our future, " he said.
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It's not a phrase any politician would welcome -- no one seeking the voting public's goodwill wants to be associated with traffic headaches -- but that's how it is these days, whether the person in office is a Democrat or a Republican.
Twenty-five years ago, Cameron's predecessor Margaret Thatcher was called a "conviction" politician, not a passionate one.
According to one pollster, though Filipinos have a strong belief in family values, when they vote they do not seem to consider a politician's marital waywardness as a serious disqualification.
You can see why this impolitic ex-lieutenant governor did not last long as a politician.
Here's something to know: While Romney was born into politics, he's not a natural-born politician.
Sheikh Hasina will not, says a senior politician, want to pull the tiger's tail.
It is not the first time a politician has caused a furore by using the word autism.
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