Policy Mistakes Quotes

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

[Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.

There is a marked tendency among policy makers to deal with the economic and political crises of today, leading them to repeat old mistakes

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

I have criticized foreign policy, but that does not mean that we should agree with everything. Indeed, we criticize a lot of things, we think that our partners make many mistakes [may be we make mistakes too, no one is immune to making mistakes], but as for the economy, I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path.

At almost every step of modern immigration policy and immigration politics, we have exacerbated underlying problems and made things worse.

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.

On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama is not a confrontational man. He stayed away from all confrontations, and you can look and see what happened overseas. It's a mess everywhere. So he made major mistakes, major policy mistakes. Those mistakes are not going to be forgiven by history.

A lot of mistakes [in government] are made by people with little experience.

Crisis management … is the worst type of policy because you will miss things.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

If a president makes a reasoned decision about what best serves the nation's interests, even if he turns out to be wrong, he has committed no impeachable offense. The Framers didn't intend, through impeachment, to transform such policy disputes or mistakes into high crimes.

Since the inauguration of Mr. Lee Myung-bak, I was very much disappointed with his politics and policies. Not only in economics, but also in many social and political issues, he made many mistakes.

We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

This administration has been attempting to unscramble the omelet. Mistakes made in the last four years cannot be undone.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

… our record in predicting where we will use military force over the last 40 years has been perfect. We have never once gotten it right.