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Decision-making Quotes
"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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"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."
5
"In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented."
5
"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
5
"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
5
"The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida."
5
"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."
5
"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
5
"For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation."
5
"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
5
"President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security."
5
"We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia."
5
"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?"
5
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
5
"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
5
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
5
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
5
"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."
5
"Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs."
5
"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
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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."
5
"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."
5
"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
5
"It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors."
5
"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
5
"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
5
"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."
5
"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."
5
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
4
"Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included."
4
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
4
"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
4
"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
4
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
4
"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."
4
"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
4
"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."
4
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"I haven't always made the right decisions."
4
"Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions."
4
"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."
4
"Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice."
4
"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
4
"We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty."
4
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
3
"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."
3
"So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all."
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