Brian Kemp Quotes

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in this world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

It's not anti-Catholic to question, nor is it anti-Catholic to be honest about the previous shortcomings of the church, because that is the only way we can ensure its strength and dignity moving forward. It is, however, very Catholic to forgive each other and to never stop loving each other.

Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

India's history and destiny, India's legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.

I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.

You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve.

...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.