What has been your biggest disappointment?

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That Al Gore was denied the American presidency in 2000.

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Vince Cable British politician
The failure of my party to make the big political breakthrough it deserves.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2009 source ↗
George H. W. Bush 41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
When I lost a race for the United States Senate, I thought the world was going to end for me politically, and 18 years later I was elected President of the United States. The biggest disappointment was that I wasn't able to communicate properly to the American people — with the proper conviction and the proper ability — where the country really stood. The pessimists, the naysayers, the change-wanters overwhelmed me, and I wasn't good enough. I wasn't articulate enough to have the country understand that we weren't in a recession, that we were in a rather booming economy in the last half of my presidency. That was a personal shortcoming, a failure on my path.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2 June 1995 source ↗

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