Country Quote by Lakhdar Brahimi

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

— Noam Chomsky

Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.

— Amish Tripathi

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

— Kofi Annan

The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and…

— Ahmed Rashid

The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

— Jon Taffer

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault.…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.

— Herman Cain

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

— Henry Ford

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

— Cal Thomas

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing…

— Joseph Sobran