Failed Promise Quotes

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

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.

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

Your government failed you. The people entrusted with your security failed you. I failed you.

When the curtain dropped on the [Marcus] Garvey theatricals, the black man of America was exactly where Garvey had found him, though a little bit sadder, perhaps a bit poorer—if not wiser.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I believed Justin Trudeau in 2015. I thought he would be a climate leader. I was wrong.

Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

I'm sure there's a long list of one-time all-stars, and I don't want to be on it.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.