Aaron McGruder Quotes

Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

In politics you learn from the mistakes you made and the mistakes that you see other people make.

We all make mistakes. In public life, we make them in public view.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

It was my mistake in the first days of the electoral campaign. I understand the mistake. I don't accept that people who say, "Oh, politicians have to refuse to admit the mistakes." No. I am an, I am a man. I can make some mistakes.

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying you [Bernie Sanders] did it for any kind of financial advantage.

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don't say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.

Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in local activities, get involved in local initiatives, be involved in leadership positions because you can’t learn unless you are involved. And if you make mistakes that is alright too because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

Well, Americans expect our president to be human beings, and as imperfect as all of us are. They expect us to make mistakes and all that. But one thing the American public likes is, if you make a mistake, you do that, you cross that line that they expect you to behave under, then you apologize or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, you are going to do better, you are going to achieve better, and you are going to serve a higher purpose than that.

Mike Flynn is a fine person. I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.