Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Every President wants to do right.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.