Failure To Launch

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

Failure is an event, never a person. - William D. Brown

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Kin Hubbard

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final. - Don Shula

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. - Rickey Henderson

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you. - Zig Ziglar

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. - Zig Ziglar

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. - Oprah Winfrey

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one. - John Greenleaf Whittier

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. - Lyndon B Johnson

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Gen. Colin L. Powell

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

Doing the thing nearly right and doing it exactly right is usually the difference between success and failure. - Edward Simmons

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert B Swope

You can catch health, happiness, and success from others just as easily as you can catch worries, bitterness, and failure. - Dale Carnegie

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

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