Understanding Kim Jong-Un

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