Top 1200 American Political System Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal deposit insurance in place, we haven't had a depositor who's got less than $100,000 in an account lose a penny. So the American people can be very, very confident about their accounts in our banking system.

It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

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

The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.

I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat.

The overwhelming majority of Puerto Rico is completely, completely alienated from the political structure. Colonialism is really, really strong and alive in Puerto Rico. And the politicians have taken full advantage of that. We have a debt of $74 billion, caused primarily by the system and the political structure that exists in Puerto Rico.

The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank.

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

The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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

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

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

My administration is going to fix the system so it works fairly and justly for each and every American.

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

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

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

The extremism of the Trump administration has galvanized women to push back against the political system that has disadvantaged them for a generation.

America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.

The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

Let's get put in place a better health care system the American people deserve.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very dangerous because then it could be a model to other movements and groups in neighboring countries. And gradually there could be an erosion from within by indigenous forces of American domination of the region.

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.

The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for everyone who needs care, ... costs little money, and it's not a system about which you have to worry all the time. I think that for us the risk is that the private system undermines the solidarity principle. If that is fixed and we concentrate a little bit on better competition and more research, I think the German health care system is a nice third way between a for-profit system on the one hand and, let's say, a single-payer system on the other hand.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.