Aneurin Bevan Quotes

Criticizing presidents for weakess is standard in Washington because the world is a messy place and when bad things happen, Washington and the President can easily be blamed for them.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Every President has to have a scapegoat.

When things don't go well they like to blame the Presidents, and that is one of the things that President's are paid for.

The Ministers are like a flotilla broken up by a hurricane, the stricken ships run into each other, crash together and if they reach the port there is always a leader to blame, at least so it is believed. If a good Minister for one moment takes his eye off the tiller he is lost; envy clings on to his wreckage and the paid hacks try and sink him to the bottom.

Don’t blame me for not serving you proper warning.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Politics is about accountability, it is about leadership, it is about courage.

People are very apt to shift the Blame off themselves, and lay it upon others, when perhaps they themselves are as much or more to blame. The popular Cry is against Merchants and Traders, as if they had ruined the Country; or against those who are or have been in the Government

The President has become increasingly the depository of all national ills, especially if things go wrong.