I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

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.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

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.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

The die is cast.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

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.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

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.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

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.