#promised

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#been #better #big #bureaucracies #centralization

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #compromised #handed #i #many

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. ↗

— Red Cloud

#i can #kept #land #made #many

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#deliver #determined #effort #hawk #i

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#believe #better #chance #compromised #dangerously

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year. ↗

— Anna Friel

#bored #dead #desert #desert island #does