The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later. — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced. — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the… — Paul Jacob Copy Share Image
No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone… — Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Copy Share Image
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image