#political system

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system. ↗

— David R. Brower

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The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. ↗

— Nick Clegg

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

— George Washington

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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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

— Al Gore

#business #enhanced #evolved #last #lobbies

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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

— Claire McCaskill

#lot #love #loves #moderates #much

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

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

— Charles Schumer

#find #hole #into #money #plug