"The net effect of doing it, beyond some good public relations, will not be much, and it's going to make a worse system."

"Even the best leader can't thrive in a bad system."

That would be the old system all over again, only worse.

"But among the industrial nations we have one of the worst systems for getting people from school to work."

While under the rule of the British king they learned that this could be a bad system.

It's a bad system with (as said above) a single point of failure.

If we got the worst system or the best, it wasn't going to affect my contract.

So bad a system could not possibly produce such good results.

You see, this is the worst system in the world.

"Democracy is the worst political system, except for all other that have been tried."