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"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it."
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"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
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"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."
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"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions."
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"Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions."
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"In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em."
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"There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
People
"Preserve the President's options. He may need them."
Politics
"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."
Leadership
"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."
Woman
"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
People
"Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution."
Leadership
"It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task."
Mistake
"Learn to say "I don't know." If used when appropriate, it will be often."
Will
"Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems."
Leadership
"If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought."
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