I just didn't understand the American political system…

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

— Eldridge Cleaver

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I really think what's happening to the American political system is that it has been reduced to a system of self-perpetuation for the people…

— Rush Limbaugh

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

— P. J. O'Rourke

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

— Rush Limbaugh

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

— Ezra Klein

I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that the American…

— Howard Zinn

What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is…

— Rush Limbaugh

Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is…

— William J. Clinton

What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard…

— Ella Mai

“The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for…

— Neil Gaiman

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

— Chiaki Kuriyama

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie…

— Jackie Chan

“Given the likelihood that he doesn’t understand the American president is not a dictator, all these groups have a great deal to fear in…

— Scott McMurrey