If you call your average black politician a racist, he would take it as a compliment.

In 1896 he told a newspaper reporter, "I consider bunco steering more honorable than the life led by the average politician."

"I don't like to do things like the average politician," she said.

The average politician has little motivation to help, represent or acknowledge any group of people that has no voting power.

And the average politician, dumb or stupid, took our word for it.

It had never been difficult to corrupt the average politician.

Certainly his prose would make the average politician seem much more interesting.

Indeed, the average politician sees no further than the next election, and that must have been particularly true of politicians during the late Roman Republic.

Now, in his neat blue suit, he looks like an average Korean politician.

In fighting is far more familiar to the average American politician than is partisan confrontation.