Quotes of: Political-system Keyword

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Big money is ruining the political system.

Arlen Specter

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

George Washington

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Claire McCaskill

The political system, it’s a shame it’s a sham.

This Book Has No Title

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Al Gore

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

John Rawls

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

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

Byron Dorgan

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

Anais Nin

Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

Peter Higgs

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Pat Robertson

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Eric Alterman

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Peter Garrett

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it a useful shibboleth for showing their fealty fiscal discipline, even as they vote to ratify the ...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul