Failed Reforms Quotes

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

Washington has become a place where good ideas come to die.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

All of the promises of ObamaCare, all of those shiny objects that were sold in Christmas in 2009 didn't come true.

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.