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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by Normando 5 months ago
The long and short is the Saudis need to come to their senses, they have committed a humongous blunder very much against their own economic and security interests as well as ours. The only apparent purpose of this cut in oil supplies is to help the Russians and harm Americans. It was unprovoked and unforced as an error. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don’t see him as having that sort of sensitivity or caring unless there might have been some sort of tactic or mutual agreement with China, if he did that, that would be a surprising strategic blunder on his part. I tend to think that there’s another explanation behind the scenes as to why there was this lull before the start. Perhaps to allow predictable sanctions targets enough time to move assets before U.S. sanctions would be put in place. – Pete Marocco	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Biden's promise that America wants to take radical, transformational and too rapid reductions in carbon and carbon emissions by the end of the decade is a colossal domestic and foreign policy blunder of epic proportions. – Patrick Morrisey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Modi's latest foreign policy disaster on China can be termed a Himalayan blunder. – Sanjay Jha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Does Secretary Clinton have the intelligence, the experience to be president? Of course she does but I do question her judgment, i question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
She voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of the United States of America. – Dick Cheney	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He is terrible at explaining his foreign policy and shows itevery day he campaigns, today’s blunder about Putinis just another example. – Jim Gilmore	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Senator Rubio emphatically supported Hillary Clinton in toppling (Muammar) Qaddafi in Libya. I think that made no sense, the terrorist attack that occurred in Benghazi was a direct result of that massive foreign policy blunder. – Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I will do everything that I can to make sure that the United States does not get involved in another quagmire like we did in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country, we should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
TLC once stood for The Learning Channel…and now it stands for Totally Ludacris Content, it’s pathetic and it’s desperate. It’s a strategic blunder. You have to have a brand for your programing and a program like ‘Sex in Public’ is going to help nobody. It may be clever in terms of ‘oh they’re going to a food court to talk to about their sexual appetite’ but at the end of the day this is explicit content, it’s on a network that has built a brand on other types of content. I just don’t think it’s going to fit. – Tim Winter	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The historic blunder of this administration is not leaving a stabilizing force behind in Iraq, i do not believe Syria would have spun out of control, certainly.ISIS rose from the defeated ashes of what was Al Qaeda in Iraq. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Meanwhile, in the face of this Russian military buildup, we are significantly reducing Army forces in our nation’s only Arctic state, Alaska. This is a strategic blunder by the Obama administration. – Dan Sullivan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain. – Mariano Rajoy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The field trials will destroy the entire agrarian economy of this country because they have no clue about the long term impact, they have been blinded by the western corporates and we will not let them commit this blunder. – Mohini Mohan Mishra	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. – Marianne Moore	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Considering Taiwan would only use these planes for defensive purposes, it was a short-sighted blunder on the administration’s part not to sell Taiwan the new planes,” Sean King, vice president of Park Strategies, told The Hill. “We can’t let ourselves be bullied by Beijing. After all, the United States is mainland China’s No. 1 nation-state export market. Beijing needs us more than we sometimes realize.” – Sean King Park Strategies	added by Maron56 10 years ago
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. – Robert Anson Heinlein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
5 months ago

The long and short is the Saudis need to come to their senses, they have committed a humongous blunder very much against their own economic and security interests as well as ours. The only apparent purpose of this cut in oil supplies is to help the Russians and harm Americans. It was unprovoked and unforced as an error.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don’t see him as having that sort of sensitivity or caring unless there might have been some sort of tactic or mutual agreement with China, if he did that, that would be a surprising strategic blunder on his part. I tend to think that there’s another explanation behind the scenes as to why there was this lull before the start. Perhaps to allow predictable sanctions targets enough time to move assets before U.S. sanctions would be put in place.

– Pete Marocco

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Biden's promise that America wants to take radical, transformational and too rapid reductions in carbon and carbon emissions by the end of the decade is a colossal domestic and foreign policy blunder of epic proportions.

– Patrick Morrisey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Modi's latest foreign policy disaster on China can be termed a Himalayan blunder.

– Sanjay Jha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Does Secretary Clinton have the intelligence, the experience to be president? Of course she does but I do question her judgment, i question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I question her judgment which voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She voted for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of the United States of America.

– Dick Cheney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He is terrible at explaining his foreign policy and shows itevery day he campaigns, today’s blunder about Putinis just another example.

– Jim Gilmore

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Senator Rubio emphatically supported Hillary Clinton in toppling (Muammar) Qaddafi in Libya. I think that made no sense, the terrorist attack that occurred in Benghazi was a direct result of that massive foreign policy blunder.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I will do everything that I can to make sure that the United States does not get involved in another quagmire like we did in Iraq, the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of this country, we should be putting together a coalition of Arab countries who should be leading the effort.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

TLC once stood for The Learning Channel…and now it stands for Totally Ludacris Content, it’s pathetic and it’s desperate. It’s a strategic blunder. You have to have a brand for your programing and a program like ‘Sex in Public’ is going to help nobody. It may be clever in terms of ‘oh they’re going to a food court to talk to about their sexual appetite’ but at the end of the day this is explicit content, it’s on a network that has built a brand on other types of content. I just don’t think it’s going to fit.

– Tim Winter

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The historic blunder of this administration is not leaving a stabilizing force behind in Iraq, i do not believe Syria would have spun out of control, certainly.ISIS rose from the defeated ashes of what was Al Qaeda in Iraq.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Meanwhile, in the face of this Russian military buildup, we are significantly reducing Army forces in our nation’s only Arctic state, Alaska. This is a strategic blunder by the Obama administration.

– Dan Sullivan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

– Mariano Rajoy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The field trials will destroy the entire agrarian economy of this country because they have no clue about the long term impact, they have been blinded by the western corporates and we will not let them commit this blunder.

– Mohini Mohan Mishra

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

– Marianne Moore

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Considering Taiwan would only use these planes for defensive purposes, it was a short-sighted blunder on the administration’s part not to sell Taiwan the new planes,” Sean King, vice president of Park Strategies, told The Hill. “We can’t let ourselves be bullied by Beijing. After all, the United States is mainland China’s No. 1 nation-state export market. Beijing needs us more than we sometimes realize.”

– Sean King Park Strategies

added by Maron56
10 years ago

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery