Failure To Launch

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - J. R. Lowell

My reputation grows with every failure. - George Bernard Shaw

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - John Wooden

Success and failure are equally disastrous. - Tennessee Williams

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. - Malcolm Muggeridge

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp

I wish she would be able to take responsibility for her failure. - Donald Trump

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. - Rudyard Kipling

Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing. - Lynn Bardowski

Don't ever perceive other people's success as your own failure. - Rob Liano

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. - Alisha Tyler

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. - James Cameron

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov