Political Systems Quotes - Page 6

• 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 dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

  William Hague

  Good Luck, Political, Normal

  "Decca Aitkenhead meets William Hague". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Giving, Political

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2005.

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• The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.

  Mike Lofgren

  Party, Government, Political

  Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.24, Penguin

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• The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Fashion, Agreement

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.

  Jerry Springer

  America, Issues, Political

  "Democratic Veteran". Interview with Jo Fish, June 23, 2003.

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• Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system…The central feature of the American constitutional system—the separation of powers—exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers.

  James Q. Wilson

  Powerful, Exercise, Agency

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• Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

  Tony Benn

  Team, Mean, Essence

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• In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

  John Rawls

  Political, Campaigns, Finance

  John Rawls (2001). “The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

  Byron Dorgan

  Decision, Political, Proud

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• I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

  Byron Dorgan

  Political, Proud, Privilege

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• 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

  Political, Insulting, Want

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

  Michael Kinsley

  Usa, Political, Half

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• The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

  Marshall Fritz

  Political, Way, Scales

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• I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Long, People

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• In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Political, Population, Evolution

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• Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

  George Michael

  Political, Groups, Minorities

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• ..I think there is less cynicism about human rights than there was. The work we are doing is part of the overall pattern of human development, whatever the political system, whatever the country, whatever the cultural background, whatever the religion.

  Martin Ennals

  Country, Thinking, Rights

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• The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

  Kofi Annan

  Political, Problem, Guides

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.64, Routledge

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• An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Religious, Perfect, Political

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• Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.

  Molly Ivins

  Simple, People, Political

  "I Told You So". archive.is. May 30, 2002.

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• Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

  Charles Schumer

  Squash, Political, Way

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• Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

  Paul Jacob

  Political, Currents, Worst

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• The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

  Huston Smith

  Swings, Political, World

  Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Political, Needs, Fundamentals

  "Poll: Most say Arroyo should go", www.cnn.com. July 11, 2005.

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• Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

  Ron Holland

  Exercise, People, Voting

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