In our business you use that phrasea lot, but I can't think of aday in the 37 years that I've been a United States senator and the short time I've been Vice President that it is more appropriately stated.
In fact, the place at times took on the flavor of a giant interpersonal counseling session in which the phrase "the system" was invoked more than on any day since Abbie Hoffman died.
These phrases are just "a drop in the bucket" (another biblical phrase) of the many things we say and do every day that have their origins in the most read, most influential book of all time.