Understanding Kim Jong-Un

Why should things be easy to understand? - Thomas Pynchon

To understand a new idea, break an old habit. - Jean Toomer

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Albert Einstein

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem. - Woody Allen

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

All I want is peace, love, understanding, and a chocolate bar bigger than my head. - Unknown

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

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

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more. - Albert Einstein

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. - Spinoza

My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. - Stephen Hawking

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life but in a new way. - Doris Lessing

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In later years, you fight because you do. - Joan Didion

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln

The difference between being a manager and being a leader is that managers understand staff and leaders understand people. - Peter Legge

The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships: we listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double. - Unknown

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. - Ogden Nash

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi