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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
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"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
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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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"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision."
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"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
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"The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country."
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"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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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."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."
Leadership
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
Vision
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
Politics
"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
Policy
"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
Peace
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
God
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
Time
"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."
Politics
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