Failure Quote by Thomas Bray

“Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"?”

— Oleg Atbashian

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

— Yiannis Stournaras

The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between…

— Harry Browne

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

— Abraham Lincoln

The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.

— Tucker Carlson

“This is a relatively recent phenomenon, this notion that government inevitably leads to dependency. Look, there were periods of time in our history when…

— David Blum

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget;…

— Tracey Emin

So 77 government programs, everything from aircrafts that the Air Force had ordered but weren't working very well, 18 government...18 government programs for education…

— Barack Obama

That was exactly what we were told by the intelligence community. The intelligence community told us that. As they learned more facts about exactly…

— Joe Biden

I think that part of the problem that arose with that legislation, is that there probably wasn't sufficient information - probably there was misinformation.…

— Thabo Mbeki

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months…

— Bob Woodward

“April 5th. You know what that means to me? That means the budget for the project expired at the end of financial year 1968…

— Charles Stross