Rome was not built in a day and nor, it is plain, will be any new Roman political system.
Tunisia's revolution ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and brought about a new government and political system, including a new draft constitution.
In Thailand, for example, it has brought down one government, and eased the passage of a new constitution aimed at cleaning up a political system long operated on commercial lines.
Defense companies need to be thinking about other lines of work where their results are less subject to the whims of a political system that has moved on to new priorities.
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Once this group finds its footing, and awareness dawns on the rest of the economy that it really is a case of game over, this is where we can expect a new breed of political and economic leaders to emerge and reboot the economic system.
So the fact that new weapons programs may take 20 years to reach the field in a political system that operates on two- and four-year cycles is a real threat to keeping those programs on track.
Those appointed to quangos within the commissioner's remit now have to say if they have been involved in politics in the past five years: in the first nine months of the new system, 10.3% of quango appointees admitted to political activity, of which 5.9% were Conservative, 3.3% Labour and 0.5% Liberal Democrat.
Indian activist Arvind Kejriwal, who announced a new political party to fight corruption this week, promises to "change the system within a fortnight" if voted into power.
That was all written into the rulebook in the last parliament by the Wright Committee, which designed the new system of elected committee chairs, with the aim of preventing party political attacks on them.
What's more, Leveson will make recommendations for a new system of press regulation which look likely to be the subject of a bitter political debate.
Officials say the new system will make policymakers more personally accountable for their decisions and protect civil servants from political pressures.
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