I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand,… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to take a close look at the relationship between the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of Democracy.… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
![“I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised people back into the political system that if he didn't win, the disillusionment in America and the idea of more of the same failed policies of the last eight years [2000-2008]…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1cc/irvine-welsh-843_america_i-think-that-there-are-just-so-many-peop_700710.png)
![“[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts…” quote by James Q. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f9c/james-q-wilson-16701_answers_in-1998-i-know-my-political-ideas-affect_1642598.jpg)
![“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities…” quote by Alex Kozinski](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/57c/alex-kozinski-26609_between-the-lines_in-a-very-real-sense-the-constitution-is_1028882.jpg)
![“he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of that. And climate change is a game-changer. We really are in serious trouble as a species if we stick with business as usual. We desperately need to find alternatives…” quote by Cynthia Kauffman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f7/cynthia-kauffman-28352_alternatives_he-issue-of-inequality-in-this-country-u_3097933.jpg)
