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Henry A. Kissinger

"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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"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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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."

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"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."

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"Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included."

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"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."

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"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."

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"I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle."

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"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."

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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."

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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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