Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Rahul Gandhi has promised to remove poverty and unemployment. There is nothing new about the election promises of Congress. Had only half of those promises been fulfilled, India would have been the most prosperous country in the world today.
In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.
I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end as I would have wished.
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.
The “region” of course is the Middle East.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.
You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
I am falser than vows made in wine.
New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.