Skip to content

The question

What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
Losing is my biggest regret, and losing to someone who was not qualified and did not have the experience or the temperament to be president of the United States. That is my biggest regret.

Tamara Keith, NPR interview about What Happened, 12 September 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 367 →
Andrew O'Hagan Scottish author
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
du Beke English dancer and TV presenter
Not doing as well as I’d hoped in dancing competitions. I was massively competitive and massively disappointed most of the time. It’s the same now.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗

More from Hillary Clinton

View profile →

More on failure & regret

Also answered this

Richard Eyre, Jo Nesbø, Matthew Modine, Kerry Godliman, Lauren Laverne, Kate Mosse

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer