#mistake

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actions #around #best #best intentions #country

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake. ↗

— Barack Obama

#along #better #better off #broadening #change

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#big #big mistake #jackets #many #mistake

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio. ↗

— Phil Rizzuto

#because #better #i #know #like

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#being #brutal #each #enough #game

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#ask #before #both #feel #get

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#biggest mistake #invest #investors #know #mistake

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#does #makes #man #mistake #never

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#cause #honest #honest people #injustice #justice