His political idol is Teddy Roosevelt.

He requested that the announcement of his death be accompanied by a quotation from Rosa Luxemburg, still his political idol, shortly before her execution:

Now that quality has won him the office Mr. Clinton has sought since the age of 16, when he met his political idol, President John F. Kennedy.

Mr. Duhalde is proposing a return to the populist policies championed decades ago by his political idol, Gen. Juan Domingo Perón.

Monsaraz initially became even stronger in his national syndicalism and for a brief spell looked to Nazism, declaring Adolf Hitler to be his political idol.

A blunt and forceful man whose political idol is Charles de Gaulle, Mr. Chirac cannot find these criticisms easy to bear.

Teddy is named after Mr. Pataki's political idol, Teddy Roosevelt.

Jesus Christ is his personal savior and Ronald Reagan his political idol.

While Clay was Brownlow's political idol, Methodism founder John Wesley was his theological idol.

Before his time, only political idols had existed.