Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Celie: [to Albert] Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail.
Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Where did I fail you? Where did I make my mistake?
Count Dracula: [tries to hypnotize Van Helsing and fails] Your will is strong. [tries to attack] Van Helsing: [takes out a crucifix without fear] Indeed.
Amsterdam Vallon: [the failed assassin is dying] I think he's making his peace with God.
Dr. Brand: Not sure of what I'm more afraid of, them never coming back, or coming back to find we've failed. Murph: Then let's succeed.
Yuri Orlov: They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey: [after failing to catch a fly ball] I lost it in the sun. Pop Fisher: [looks up at the cloudy sky] Blinding.
Woo-jin Lee: Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions.
Django: Where are you going? Remy: Back to the restaraunt! They'll fail without me! Django: Why do you care? Remy: Because I'm a cook!
James Bond: [the fat bodyguard is about to be bitten by a komodo dragon, failed to pull the trigger to James Bond] Good luck with that.
[Dyson's personal code fails to access the computer room] The Terminator: [raises a grenade launcher] Let me try mine.
If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.
Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
