Political Systems Quotes - Page 5

• What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Exercise, Accountability

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.784, AK Press

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• We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Strong, Party

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• There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

  Walter Wriston

  Hands, Political, Growing

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• Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

  Mark B. Cohen

  Winning, Political, Politics

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• There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Political

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.29, South End Press

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• It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

  Colin Powell

  Wall, Anger, Political

  "Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are ‘As American As Apple Pie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Political, Enlightenment

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

  George Papandreou

  Political, Framework, Greece

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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

  Years, America, Political

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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 everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

  Al Franken

  Mean, Political, Democracy

  "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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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 protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

  Josh Fox

  Law, Oil, Safety

  "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.

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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 the U.S. political system is broken.

  Ron Fournier

  White, Broken, House

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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 of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Political, Example

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• Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Birthday, Justice, Political

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• This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Years, Political

  Speech at Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California, www.weeklystandard.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

  David R. Brower

  Thinking, Political, Records

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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 slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Moving, Political

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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 they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Believe, Political, Advice

  "Occupy a Wing of the Democratic Party" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Self, People

  "How to interview P.J. O’Rourke on drugs while getting your mind blown and not embarrass yourself". Interview with Mike Riggs, dailycaller.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

  Michael Nutter

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Reality, Political

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• I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

  Dylan Moran

  Country, Political, Different

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• A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

  James Madison

  Political, Liberty, United States

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

  Richard Lamm

  Country, Real, America

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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, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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