Understanding Kim Jong-Un

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Never invest in a business you cannot understand. - Warren Buffett

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire. - Anthony Hope

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. - Albert Einstein

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Jane Austen

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. - Rudyard Kipling

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. - Albert Camus

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honours God. - Ravi Zacharias

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost

The law was made for one thing alone - for the exploitation of those who don't understand it. - Bertoit Brecht

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. - Mike Tyson

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

The way you can understand all of the social media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. - Danah Boyd

We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. - Jaron Lanier