Failure To Launch

The only risk of failure is promotion. - Scott Adams

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. - Tony Robbins

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy. - Sylvester Stallone

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. Success feeds on itself. - Tal Ben-Shahar

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

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

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. - Laurence J Peter

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. - Mia Hamm

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

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. - Jim Rohn

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama