Failure Quote by Omar al-Bashir

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a…

— Eric Alterman

If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.

— Vladimir Putin

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of…

— Stephen Fry

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in…

— William Westmoreland

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

— Jesse Ventura

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

— Dar Williams

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the…

— James Monroe

War, not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also dont learn from our successes.

— Anonymous

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an…

— Simone Weil