Politicians are no imams, pastors or priests but the positions into which they are elected or appointed elevate them into stations of unqualified trust; trust that they will faithfully lead in good times and in bad times, that they

will sacrifice sleep and ordinary pleasures of life for the common good of those they represent, and that they will seek most arduously 

https://awoko.org/2014/04/03/sierra-leone-news-the-paradox-of-dirty-politics/