It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so characterized by hesitation and indecision will harm the national interest.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is instead an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

As long as the G.O.P. led by its increasingly visible women continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests the gender gap won't go away.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?