#political system

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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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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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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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

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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. ↗

— Kurt Huber

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I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

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