Characteristics Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

— Kofi Annan

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

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

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

— Mark Steyn

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Cal Thomas

With the American failure came world failure.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

— Lincoln Steffens

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

— Antisthenes