“I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians.”
Joe Arpaio
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men”
Abraham Lincoln
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Will Rogers
“Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires”
Bertrand Russell
“Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.”
Paul Valery
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
Theodore Roosevelt