Decision Quotes

This is a huge decision [to choose advisers and Secretary of State]. This is where he [Donald Trump] has the least experience and will have to rely on people with experience.

The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

[T]he course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others. Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.

I make decisions based on what I think is best for the country.

”In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power.”

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.

Those who heralded the decision not to give law enforcement the tools necessary to protect the American people just simply don't see the world the way we do.

I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

I'm comfortable that I made the best decisions I possibly could.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

I will reach out to others and explain why I make the decisions I make.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

If you look at my policies they're all aimed at empowering people to make their own decisions.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

When the BCS started, a decision was made collectively, as coaches, that the BCS champion would receive our championship and our trophy. It's as simple as that.

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing up decisions that make sense for the president.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.