You’re not a baby boomer if you don’t have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. – P. J. O’Rourke
What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit. – Martin Dempsey
This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent. – Elmer Davis
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. – Napoleon Hill
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. – David D. Burns
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back. – Marsha Blackburn
The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas. – Paul Samuelson
I learned this about coaching: You don’t have to explain victory and you can’t explain defeat. – Darrell Royal
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn’t work to implement cap and trade. – Michele Bachmann
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. – Doc Hastings
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous. – Edward Teller
The mission – the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there’s not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. – Michael Mullen
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. – Morris Gleitzman
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. – Martin Jacques
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later. – Michael Medved
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. – Ivor Novello
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. – Jack Layton
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. – John Boyd Orr
I’m an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life. – John W. Thompson
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. – John Abizaid
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. – Karl Liebknecht
I’m a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. – Jeane Kirkpatrick