Failed Leadership Quotes

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

The foundation of all government is the trust reposed by the people in their governors. At present that confidence is entirely extinguished. Complaints are universal and all the complaints fall upon the Prince .… The nation sees that the Prince did not make proper use of the power given to him. Those persons who almost brought down the state are still in office; they and their allies are well received by the Prince, some continue in the same improper manner as in the days of the earlier anarchy.

The Congress-DMK combine has constantly deceived the people. They have neither safeguarded Tamils in India nor those in Sri Lanka.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Obviously, I believe that Rahm Emanuel's leadership has failed. Obviously, I believe we need change.

Yassar Arafat is sitting on the corpses and destruction of the Palestinians at a time when they are desperately in need of a new mentality.

Jon Tester's priorities are with the liberal, extreme minority of Democrats in the Senate unwilling to compromise. He does not have Montana's best interests in mind. He has failed to represent Montanans.

The crowd that is running Washington today has had 12 years and it failed

In my opinion, Obama can become one of the biggest frustrations in the history for many people, not for me, but for the people of the United States that voted for him and saw him as a symbol of hope for change.

George W. Bush is the worst President in U. S. history.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

In the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats built their campaign around a pledge to abolish tuition fees. By the end of that year, however, they had tripled them instead. The Liberal Democrats had made young people feel as if they were on their side. They were not.

The sad fact is, because we've had a failed policy and failed leadership, now we're having to rely on Russians and the Iranians to go into Syria to fight and destroy ISIS.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

… our representative system has failed.

Their failures, both Obama's and Kay Hagan's, are obvious.