Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.… — Colin Farrell 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
If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It's a very depressing business, the… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society… — Gerald De Gaury Copy Share Image
We have felt for some time that if political candidates or their staff are willing to make the pilgrimage to North Iowa,… — Kurt Meyer Copy Share Image
Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get… — Erykah Badu 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
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
Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with… — Frank Zappa 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
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system:… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical… — Richard Barnet Copy Share Image
The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank 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
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