The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later. — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced. — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system. — Sylvia Lim 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 political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help. — Barack Obama 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
There's disgust with what people called a broken political system, and they're really angry at elites, whether it's the Republican establishment or… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old… — Anonymous 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
Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some… — David Petraeus 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
In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact… — Alex Kozinski 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
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
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
Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. — Mark B. Cohen Copy Share Image
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state. — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I really think what's happening to the American political system is that it has been reduced to a system of self-perpetuation for… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall… — Martin Ennals Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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![“[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/quotes/i/f9c/james-q-wilson-16701_answers_in-1998-i-know-my-political-ideas-affect_1642598.jpg)
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