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Decision-making Quotes
"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
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"That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor."
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"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
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"The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision."
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"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
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"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
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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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"My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste."
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"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."
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"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
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"The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this."
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"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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"Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made."
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"New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years."
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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
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"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."
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"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
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"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
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"I haven't always made the right decisions."
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"A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials."
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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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"Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy."
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"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
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"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
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"Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes."
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"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
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"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
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"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
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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 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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"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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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
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"And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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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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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
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"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
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