Political Flaws Quotes

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system itself.

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

We Arabs have always been talking about America and the flaws in its democracy. But it’s high time that we talked about our own illnesses.

We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance.

Elections are rarely perfect.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

We are not perfect by a damn sight, and in politics that’s very clear.

Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.