System Quotes

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When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa. — Sargent Shriver
Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos… — Nate Silver
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. — Herbert Simon
I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's… — Michael K. Simpson
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read… — Simon Sinek
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a… — Manmohan Singh
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system. — Mark Skousen
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it… — Jane Smiley
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. — Iain Duncan Smith
After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair. — Iain Duncan Smith
If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent… — Iain Duncan Smith
We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers.… — Iain Duncan Smith
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved -… — Iain Duncan Smith
I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is… — Brittany Snow
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law,… — Sonia Sotomayor
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always… — Sonia Sotomayor
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that… — Sonia Sotomayor
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain… — Thomas Sowell
Big money is ruining the political system. — Arlen Specter
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of… — Eliot Spitzer

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