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Decision-making Quotes
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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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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"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
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"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
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"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."
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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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"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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"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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"I haven't always made the right decisions."
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"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."
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"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered."
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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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"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
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"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
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"Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision."
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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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"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
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"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
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"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
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"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
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"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
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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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"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
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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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"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
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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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"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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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
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"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
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"Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly."
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"The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers."
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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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"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that."
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"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
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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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"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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"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
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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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"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
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"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."
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"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
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"A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence."
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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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