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"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."

"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."

"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make."

"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."

"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
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"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."


"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


"Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal."


"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."


"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."


"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."


"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
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