Understanding Kim Jong-Un

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

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

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. - Albert Camus

Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician. - Martin H. Fischer

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. - Clifton Fadiman

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

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. - George Santayana

Your inner understanding of love can be extended beyond all you have ever known, before. - Eleesha

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

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

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 once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader