As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. – Michael T. Flynn
Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life. I wish I’d never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I’m glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest. – Jon Krakauer
I think it’s the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something’s not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger. – Jeff Zucker
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. – Jean-Jacques Annaud
I think it is a mistake to withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership because if America abandons the Asia Pacific markets, we’ll lose. – Kevin Brady
I didn’t spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring. – Kim Wilde
I didn’t get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they’d given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake. – Jim Jarmusch
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn’t nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. – Malcolm X
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. – Jim Saxton
I work for a place that’s been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you’re hurting your company as well. – John King
You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the ‘talking to your enemy’ approach is to equate talking with appeasing. – Jonathan Powell
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one. – James Gordon Bennett
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop. – Jurgen Klinsmann
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it’s tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake. – Lev Grossman
I know I’ll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you’re not willing to admit that you’ve made them. – John Krasinski
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour’s economic policies were a national security liability. – Liam Fox
To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does. – Kangana Ranaut
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C. – Kristi Noem
Thongs don’t show. With jeans, you’re always going to get panty lines and I think that’s just a big mistake. – Lexa Doig
