Failed Policy Quotes

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

We need to repeal the whole war on drugs. It isn’t working. We have already spent over $400 billion since the early 1970s, and it is wasted money

The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

There is no justification for continuing an unconstitutional policy with a zero percent success rate.

[Explaining a failed policy:] Our crystal ball was very muddy.

I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

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

The government they devised was defective from the start.

Multiculturalism has failed, big time.

In fighting the drug war, we are repeating all the mistakes of Vietnam, but on U.S. soil this time, with all U.S. casualties. The costs of winning far outweigh any possible benefits.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

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 war on drugs has failed. Its failure has been so categorical and self-evident that the statement itself is bromidic. By any reasonable metric of success—addiction rates, violence, the availability of drugs in our schools— it’s clear that our 40-year jihad against certain plants and chemicals has done far more harm than good.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

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.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.

What does Obama mean keep working on closing Gitmo? It's a broken promise. Obama said we were gonna close Gitmo the first day he was in office and it never happened.

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.