American Political System Quotes

• 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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• With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Political, World, Faults

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.272, St. Martin's Press

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• I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that the American political system works beautifully; it is democratic; Congress represents us; the President is elected, he represents us - it doesn't work that way.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Political

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• I really think what's happening to the American political system is that it has been reduced to a system of self-perpetuation for the people in it. And they view security for themselves as always needing things to be done.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Self, Views

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Giants, Bureaucracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Leader, Political, Catholic

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.

  Drew Barrymore

  Stupid, Political, Felt

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• The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

  Ezra Klein

  Sacrifice, Political, Crisis

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• In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Winning, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.20, 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 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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• Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, America, Political

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• It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

  Bob Woodward

  Political, Stories, Used

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• 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 desire to avoid confrontation with China.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Country, Political, Desire

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