“They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.”
On Margaret Thatcher's election to the leadership of the Tory Party, 1975.[citation needed]
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Beto O'Rourke (1972) American politician
[Tilove, Jonathan, Beto Effin’ O’Rourke: On running for Senate with the expletive undeleted First Reading, http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2017/09/25/beto-effin-orourke-on-running-for-senate-with-the-expletive-undeleted/, My Statesman, 12 November 2018, en, September 25, 2017] When asked about his "youthful indiscretions"
2017
Marcus Junius Brutus (-85–-42 BC) Roman politician
As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden
“Our enemies have always made the same mistake.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Context: Our enemies have always made the same mistake. In my lifetime—in depression and in war—they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again. For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say "Farewell." Is a new world coming? We welcome it—and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
“Woman was God’s second mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Said to Enver Hoxha, on his visit to China in 1956, as quoted in Hoxha's (1986) The Artful Albanian, (Chatto & Windus, London), ISBN 0701129700
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
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