#political system

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

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#breaks #down #else #everything #existence

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#am #been #i #i am #our

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american politics #came #decisions #i #i came