I don't know too much of foreign politicians to be able to make a statement about that. But the belgian ones I do know quite well, some are bad and some are good, in general politicians don't get a lot of credit in Belgium, IMO they don't get enough credit. We have a very complex system of government which doesn't make it easy to run this country. Most politicians do a great job, I don't agree with all of them on everything what they do. But it's going the right way most of the time.
poloticians are nothing more than educated lier's. Any time a potentialy good politician comes along with non-conventional ideas and compassion for doing whats best for the people. they always get hrown out of office in disgrace from some trivial incriminating shit, or they just get assasinated. this goes for public speakers and motivators aswell.