Noun
professional politician (plural professional politicians)
A person whose sole employment is political in nature; usually elected to office and paid a salary, but may collect donations from individuals, organizations and corporations.
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. H. L. Mencken
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. Felix Frankfurter
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. Herman Cain
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much publicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the greatest Canada has produced in this century. Peter Brimelow
I am not a professional politician. John R. Bolton
But Chu notes that as a professional politician, he has been able to “keep pace with the level of prosecution.” Source: Internet