Wale Quotes

Every President has to have a scapegoat.

Criticizing presidents for weakess is standard in Washington because the world is a messy place and when bad things happen, Washington and the President can easily be blamed for them.

Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. Quite honestly I am beginning to feel extremely sorry for him. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

The letters SG do not stand for Secretary General but for Scape Goat.

The Ministers are like a flotilla broken up by a hurricane, the stricken ships run into each other, crash together and if they reach the port there is always a leader to blame, at least so it is believed. If a good Minister for one moment takes his eye off the tiller he is lost; envy clings on to his wreckage and the paid hacks try and sink him to the bottom.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

Captains are always criticised.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

A President cannot always be popular.

I'm not at Manchester United to keep everyone happy.

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

The people expect the President to be on top of everything.

The President has become increasingly the depository of all national ills, especially if things go wrong.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

A necessary act incurs no blame.

I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.