Blair may very well be a mendacious, lying toerag, but he was the master politician and a natural leader.

The two master politicians were not discussing tactics, Mr. Clinton said later.

Aristotle, who, we are certain, perished, was the master politician.

"She's a master politician, she knows the political game very well, but she's completely selfless."

"I confess that to betray without cynicism is the sign of a master politician."

"But Newt is a real visionary on this issue, and he's also a master politician," he said.

Mikhail Gorbachev faces a challenge entirely worthy of his abilities as a master politician.

Whatever the President's shortcomings as a war leader, he was a master politician.

She tried to read his expression, but Sarto was a master politician.

Yet the case involves far more than the reputation of a master politician.