#system

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#attorney general #criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system #former

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?' ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#ask #attack #authority #country #did

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#around #become #broken #completely #country

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. ↗

— Gary Becker

#alone #analysis #assumptions #behavior #implications

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#congress #critical #efficient #employment #fairly

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#bottom line #case #decide #different #feel

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. ↗

— Vince Cable

#banks #been #governance #leading #our

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#filing #house #lost #system #vast

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#also #based #collective #devising #gave

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#completely #concern #consensus #ethical #ever