Understanding Kim Jong-Un

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

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

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. - Madeleine Albright

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

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. - Pierre de Beaumarchais

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard

I don't understand it, and I can't prove it scientifically, but I believe it. - Billy Graham

Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. - Muppets

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. - George Bernard Shaw

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand. - St. Francis of Assisi

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing. - Groucho Marx

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

The USA demanding that North Korea halt its nuclear program is akin to the fox demanding that the hens open their coup. - Steven Magee

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. - Agatha Trunchbull

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

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

Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is; noise to appreciate silence; and absence to value presence. - Unknown

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy