#politics

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#aside #brothers #cast #country #get

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#career #coincide #doing #get #good

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#certainly #cut #election #going #i

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#broader #brought #building #different #different perspective

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#good #hopes #humble #modest #otherwise

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#diversion #eyes #important #men #more

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#american #american politics #beyond #bipartisan #enjoys

I played by the rules of politics as I found them. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#i #played #politics #rules #them

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#gets #oblivion #olympics #politics #second

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#done #greatest #greatest problem #japanese #last