Best Political System Sayings
118 Political System quotes by 101 unique authors
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I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the…
— Russell Brand
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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
— Carl Sagan
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It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right…
— Hosni Mubarak
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Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a…
— Lawrence Lessig
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
— Michael Mandelbaum
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The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has…
— John Quincy Adams
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In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human…
— Justin Sane
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Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America].…
— Edward Kennedy
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The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand…
— Hu Jintao
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,…
— Leon Krier
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Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system…
— Frank Zappa
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water…
— Barbra Streisand
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Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever…
— Bell Hooks
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The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that…
— Ron Fournier
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Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that…
— Josh Fox
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for…
— Al Franken
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America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
— Al Gore
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I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the…
— Al Gore
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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what…
— Jennifer Granholm
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case…
— Rahm Emanuel
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Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally…
— William Hague
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death,…
— Eugene Ionesco
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