I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
