Understanding Kim Jong-Un

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. - Alexander Chase

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. - Stephen Covey

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

I like women, I don't understand them, but I like them. - Sean Connery

You get biased by your existing understanding of the field. - Rand Fishkin

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

The more you understand silence, that's where the balance comes. - Rick Rubin

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

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

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. - Bertrand Russell

The more you know yourself, the more you understand life, the more you value your time. - Maxime Lagace

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

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. - Rick Warren

It's not at all hard to understand a person. It's only hard to listen without bias. - Kriss Jami

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

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

It's triple the Trump this season... I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom. - Donald Trump

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. - Martin H. Fischer

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

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

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist. - Mark Zuckerberg

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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