When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.
There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will have the most debt, and then, being less likely than their affluent peers to go straight into high paying jobs, they will spend most of their working lives trying but failing to pay off that debt.
Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.
Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.
I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle of crime and punishment.
The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.
