Failed Leaders Quotes

#1. Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

Wendy Davis

#2. Whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Paul Tillich

#4. I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

Patti Smith

#5. Sometimes you will hear leaders say, "I'm the only person who can hold this nation together." If that's true then that leader has truly failed to build their nation.' That

Tim Marshall

#6. Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

Chris Lilley

#7. Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results.

John Scalzi

#8. 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.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#9. But I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut

David Nicholls

#10. Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.

Martin Jacques

#11. Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.

Danica Patrick

#12. To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you. Federal, state and local leaders by breaking the trust you placed in us.

Rick Snyder

#13. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Robert Jordan

#14. I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

Irvine Welsh

#15. When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

Dayron Robles

#16. It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

Tim Cahill

#17. Poets are band leaders who have failed.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#18. Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

William Wycherley

#19. Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.

Derek Thompson

#20. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Paul Ryan

#21. By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Harvey MacKay

#22. People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

Emily Giffin

#23. She gave him a wink which would have got a younger woman jailed.

Terry Pratchett