Political Systems Quotes

• The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Money, People, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

  David Cameron

  Country, People, Broken

  "The Economist" Interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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• You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Taken, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Framers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Big money is ruining the political system.

  Arlen Specter

  Political, Bigs

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Our political systems clearly are not working.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Political

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• This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Political, Campaigns

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• Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Political, Protection

  "On Murdoch" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2007.

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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

  Political, Trying, Frustrating

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• Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Political, Public Opinion, Investing

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• The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Order

  The Times, September 10, 1938.

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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 individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Writing, Class, Cities

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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]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Running, Country, Technology

  Interview with Roger Mudd, October 12, 1979.

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• We need to take a close look at the relationship between the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of Democracy. A democracy with high concentrations of private wealth buys votes and interferes with the ability of Capitalism to perform well. It is no longer one citizen, one vote.

  Philip Kotler

  Political, Democracy, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

  George P. Shultz

  Thinking, Political, Democracy

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• The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Jobs, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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 people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Socialist Countries, Self

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a very free flow of scientific information - a freedom accepted by the countries of the world irrespective of political systems or religions. ... Great care must be taken that the scientific network is utilized only for scientific purposes - if it gets involved in political questions it loses its special status and utility as a nonpolitical force for development.

  Sune Bergstrom

  Country, Taken, Science

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• I have always favored Capitalism as the best economic system and Democracy as the best political system. They both have the most potential for improving the lives of people. However, both systems need to be reexamined and refreshed so that, in fact, they do serve the majority of people.

  Philip Kotler

  People, Political, Democracy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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 been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• In order to prepare for meaningful change, we have to look at both sides of the problem. We need to examine the output of our political system, which is often very hostile to the poor abroad and hostile also to the poor and middle class domestically. And we must also look at the procedures through which this output is produced.

  Thomas Pogge

  Meaningful, Order, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Thinking, Political

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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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, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  Leon Krier

  Ideas, Political, Towns

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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 that wants to put idea men out of business, then you have worry on your hands.

  Frank Zappa

  Men, Hands, Wind

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