Top 1200 American Political System Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I saw Trump as a necessary force to disrupt a broken system that was no longer serving the American people.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no alternative to the present political and economic system.

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

I remain deeply interested in the transformation of the American healthcare system to improve quality and contain costs.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.

Mr. Trump has tapped into the frustrations of many Americans who feel the effects of a dismal economy and believe the political system is rigged and owned by the establishment.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

Sometimes political correctness runs amok in our public education system where we think that every kid can go to a four-year university.

Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for change.

Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.

I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.

It is the people who are running the system that's the problem, and if you deal with that aspect of the system, you will eventually get the system to work for you.

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.

I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

American businesses and consumers deserve a debit card system with competition, transparency, and reasonable fees.

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?

President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming....Why doesn't President Bush just tell the truth? His secret agenda is to dissolve the United States of America into the North American Union.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

Impeachment really is not a criminal proceeding. The American people have been conditioned to believe that, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors means what? Impeachment is a purely political process. And it can only succeed if there is the political will for it out there in the country. You can have all the misdemeanors and high crimes you want, but if the president's popular, you're not gonna succeed.

As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.

In Western Europe, most countries have variations of the lifetime pension system for most workers so they are keeping the system that we are walking away from. By comparison, 50% of the American workforce is not offered any retirement plan by their employers. And of those who are offered a plan, roughly 25% do not choose to join. In other words, everything is voluntary, and that's one of the reasons our results are so perilous for most people.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it's difficult for anyone to make any headway, yet keep his hands clean.

Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

There are two issues that people sometimes confuse, but they're very closely related. There is the strength and the stability of the American financial system. And it's very important that that system remain stable and remain strong and lending is very important to consumers. Secondly, the economy. And what has gone on in financial system is impacting the economy. And as the economy is turning down, it is very important that lending continue to be available and be available to consumers. So what we're doing with this facility is to support - is to support consumer lending.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.