Political Systems Quotes - Page 7

• Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at this point in our history. Let's embrace these things, make them work, and push for more, rather than denouncing them because they're 9th best (which they are).

  Dale Jamieson

  Political, Regulation, Fuel Economy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Politically, as a result of Citizens United, billionaires are now able to spend as much money as they want on campaigns, which means that you have a political system which is heavily dominated by corporations and wealthy individuals.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Political, Want

  "Exclusive Interview with Presidential Candidate Senator Bernie Sanders". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

  Neil Young

  Country, Democracies Have, Usa

  "Neil Young permits Trump to Keep on Rockin'", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2016.

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• Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Political, Islam, Worldly Life

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• Our political system cannot stop the degradation of our culture.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Culture, Degradation

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In America, the political system just is paralyzed for whatever reason. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, in that it's just become this giant blob bureaucracy, the primary objective is self-preservation, and the definition of self-preservation is don't do anything because then you continue to illustrate where you're needed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Self, Political

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Political, Scripture, Hebrew

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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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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• Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

  Donald Trump

  Political, Nobody Knows, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other way.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Government, People

  Donald Trump’s Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, abcnews.go.com. July 22, 2016.

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• I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised people back into the political system that if he didn't win, the disillusionment in America and the idea of more of the same failed policies of the last eight years [2000-2008], internationally and domestically, would be so bad for the country and the world as a whole.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Religious, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international institutions. So, for example, the Clinton administration was very influential in shaping the WTO treaty, and, because of the way the US domestic political system works, this meant that corporations could use the US government to wield a huge influence.

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Political, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Years, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Political, Pay

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• Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

  Leonard Read

  Pressure Groups, Political, Orbit

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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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• Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

  Jack London

  Men, Political, Lasts

  Jack London (2014). “A Collection of Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Political, Soul

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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