Unkept Promises Quotes

Donald Trump ran for president on a promise to 'drain the swamp.' I agreed with that particular statement. Unfortunately, he didn't mean what he said.

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Americans are used to the clatter of campaign promises hitting ground as they are thrown out the window.

We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

For too long, politicians have been telling people what they want to hear.

Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

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

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

When Bill Clinton tells people he feels their pain, they forget that he caused it.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Politics is tough. Sometimes, you make a promise, and for some reason, you can't because you have opposition on the other side that raises their hand and they make it impossible. But I'm going to keep a lot of them, and I've kept a lot of them already.

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

Some promises are better left unsaid

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

Promises. I was drowning in promises.

It is always best and safest to count on nothing from America but words.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.