Systemic Issues Quotes

We have institutions, but they don’t work. We have laws, but they must be enforced.

The fact that crime and poverty are correlated is automatically taken to mean that poverty causes crime, not that similar attitudes or behavior patterns may contribute to both poverty and crime.

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama believe that the problems that exist in our country can be solved by Washington, D.C. My dad believes that the problems in the country are Washington, D.C.

We do have endemic corruption, but most of it is not political.

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do.

Problems of 35 years cannot be resolved in a short period of time.

The corporate takeover of America pre-dates Trump and it will outlast him. This president has revealed the rot of America. He has made it worse. It will take more than ousting him to fix it.

Our real disease ... is democracy.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics…

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

In politics, reform never comes before crisis.

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?