A lifelong politician, he became best known as interim President of France.

Robert Heideman, the Secretary of State, was also present, a stuffy, lifelong politician who had little love for the military.

A lifelong politician, he first began running in elections in the fifth grade.

He was a lifelong politician, but often seemed bored by policy.

"I do not believe Washington can be transformed from within by a lifelong politician," he said.

Playing the same part four years later, he seemed more calculating than the most cynical lifelong politician.

Does it seem peculiar to put a lifelong politician at the helm of an arts organization?

The country requires change, he said, from "business-as-usual lifelong politicians always debating and arguing and poking at each other about the way things get done."

He'd spent the last several days working to memorize it, but knew he lacked the lifelong politician's gift for storing away long stretches of prose.

He's running against a lifelong politician who's never had any real- world experience.