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Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.
Jeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has failed to unite his own Labour MPs and has been rightly castigated for lacking any clear course.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.
I can understand failure: I've failed loads of times in my life; it's not a problem. I've never feared it, because it's a part of life.
I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.
Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
I failed my exams and my driving test. I failed to get into the Foreign Office and drama school. The big F was dominant in my early years.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
As a team leader, I have always told my team to never give up. Analyse why you failed so that, next time, you know what should not be done.
Modi failed miserably on most counts. He lacks the vision that a leader needs to possess and a strategy to achieve the vision and outcomes.
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.
In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
I spent my summers bottling peaches and my winters rotating supplies. When the World of Men failed, my family would continue on, unaffected.
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
Other tourists might remember London for Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, and Big Ben. I'll remember it for its failed multiculturalism.
We are not a failed Arab republic, so we should not fear Arab Spring. We should embrace Arab Spring. That's what I hope Saudi Arabia will do.
I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
Mike Hodge is someone I've counted on for strong, steady leadership from the very start of my union service, and he has never failed to deliver.
Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.
Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.
There is nothing that our party failed to do when it trusted the soldiers and people, and a more resplendent future is unfolding before us today.
Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.