That could be the family motto, if the family in question was the Connecticut-Texas Bushes. Quoting Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog:

In 1986, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush offered an unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for the Iran-Contra scandal in which the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in order to finance an illegal war on Nicaragua.

“Clearly, mistakes were made,” Bush said.

In 2004, then-President George W. Bush offered an eerily similar unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for the Abu Ghraib scandal, in which U.S. officials tortured detainees at an Iraqi prison:

“It’s also important for the people of Iraq to know that in a democracy, everything is not perfect, that mistakes are made,” Bush said.

In 2015, former Gov. Jeb Bush offered a practically identical, unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for his brother’s catastrophic war in Iraq, launched under false pretenses, and bungled every step of the way.

“Let’s go to Iraq,” Bush said during the Q&A at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “There were mistakes made in Iraq, for sure.”

Somehow in politics when a Bush gets his hands on something and it goes to hell, which on past performance seems likely to happen every damned time, it’s somebody else’s fault. You know the buck that’s supposed to stop at the President’s desk? It gets sidetracked on its way to the Oval Office if the occupant’s named Bush.

The Bushes are like Wall Street banks: they want to privatize the profits (financial or otherwise) from their policies while socializing the losses. Thousands of dead Americans and Iraqis? Not George’s fault. Probably Rumsfeld’s and Brenner’s and oh yeah, don’t forget that Shinseki guy. Prisoners tortured at Abu Graib? Blast that John Yoo! He said torture was okay! Arms for hostages and cash to Nicaraguan contras? It was all Ollie North’s fault!

If the American voters allow Jeb to get the Republican nomination my opinion of them will drop even further than it already has.