#failed

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. ↗

— George Takei

#achievements #again #also #certainly #country

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. ↗

— Herman Melville

#great #man #never #somewhere #who

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years. ↗

— John Mica

#administrator #after #approved #been #choices

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#failed #lot #remembered #understand

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#easily #failed #first #had #i

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy. ↗

— Graham Norton

#comedy #doing #ended #failed #i

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#basis #build #coalition #doctrine #embraced

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#class #failed #failed policies #fighting #going

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. ↗

— Mike Pence

#amendment #around #breakthrough #cloning #continues