King Hussein Quotes

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.