Quotes About System

she was just part of the way he divided up his days, which had structure in place of content.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

What I love about our league is that players have an opportunity in their career to be a free agent and decide where they want to invest their time and their talent, in whatever team and whatever system. They deserve that right. They've earned that right.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

I think most of us are far removed from what goes on in our jails and the system. When I started working on 'Lucknow Central,' it was the first time I gave it some thought.

There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.

This new middle-class elite sought reforms against the interests of a political class that had succeeded in mobilizing the vast mass of nonelite voters into the patronage system.

In the hands of good leaders, such a system can actually perform better than a democratic system that is subject to rule of law and formal democratic procedures like multiparty elections. It can make large, difficult decisions without being hampered by interest groups, lobbying, litigation, or the need to form cumbersome political coalitions or educate the public as to their own self-interest.

A middle-class voter could equally well take a proffered government job, or be persuaded that his or her family's long-term interests are better served by a system that recruits the best possible people on an impersonal basis. The choice actually made often depends on how these ideas are publically articulated.

Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (New York: Basic Books, 2012).

The current dysfunction and decay of the American political system is

México está atravesando por una etapa regresiva que podría llevar a nuestro sistema de salud a los años ochenta del siglo pasado y echar por tierra los logros de varias generaciones de médicos y enfermeras, poniendo en riesgo la salud y la seguridad financiera de la población más pobre del país.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Millon and Davis analogize the personality as one's psychological immune system.

If you believe you have a foolproof system you have failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

Unfortunately, it just so happened that the city-wide camera system, controlled by the police, was down that night from 12:20 AM until 12:35 AM. Seriously? Isn't that convenient… Even more convenient that at the exact same times, there was a complete radio silence on the emergency channels.

A program whose basic thesis is not that the system of free private enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried.