Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

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

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

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

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

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

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.

I'm not going to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year.

Always, when things don't go the way that everyone expects, people - the supporters as well - always look for someone to blame. In some cases, they blame the players.

On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

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

If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

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