The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Max Weber Quotes