Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.
I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
