Unfulfilled Commitments Quotes

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

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

He’s very eloquent but doesn’t keep a single promise.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Saying one is adopting one's policies to changing circumstances is a nice way of saying "I lied.

When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.