International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

If you judge, investigate.

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.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

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.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.