Political Mistakes Quotes

It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted.

Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

My generation knows the cost of short-sightedness in Iraq.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong.

Being right too early is one of the most devastating things in politics

Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

What mistakes and blunders, and no democratic peoples do anything!

Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me, so he is less likely to make mistakes.

[John] Bolton was an advocate for regime change in Libya, so was Hillary Clinton actually. And Donald Trump said it was a mistake. I agree it was a mistake to do regime change in Libya. We became more endangered and actually worse people took over afterwards.

Obama will learn from his mistakes.

Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump's biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

Presidential campaigns are mistakes poorly or well recovered from.

Leaders and statesmen are always making mistakes and misjudgments.

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what mistakes may have been made.

Censorship is being abused as a cloak to cover all political, naval and military mistakes..

I think interventions tend to be wrong. That doesn't mean to say that every intervention has been a disaster, but it does mean that generally they tend to screw up.