![]() The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins I may not understand, but I am willing to admire. - Anthony Hope Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. - James Stephens I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician. - Martin H. Fischer The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde The more you know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time. - Maxime Lagace One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand. - Native American Proverb Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood 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 The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama see also Government, Nationality & School Sections A New Era Chinese Cooking Destruction of America Failure To Launch Foreign Relations Here Comes Trouble Hyundai Competition Missile Launch Naval Salute North Korea Army Training North Korea Coin Toss North Korea Military Hardware North Korea vs South Korea North Korea’s Secret Weapon North Korean Rhetoric Segway Army |
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