Understanding Kim Jong-Un

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. - Zack Wamp

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one. - John Greenleaf Whittier

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. - Sting

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

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but by then we realize it and admit it. - Jules Renard

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. - Bruce Springsteen

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

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

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