Quotes of: Political-system Keyword

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

Steve Wynn

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Najib Razak

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Prince Andrew

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

Paul Bloom

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Paul Johnson

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

P. J. O'Rourke

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

P. J. O'Rourke

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Pericles

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Paul Samuelson

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.

Ron Fournier

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

Rebecca MacKinnon

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

Susan Ford

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Tony Abbott

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity.

Tina Brown

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

Tom Hanks

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Tony Judt

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Tom G. Palmer

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Tony Snow

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Leon Askin