One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald ReaganStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusThe absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry KissingerIf you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao TzuI don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.
Jurgen KloppI thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.
Ruth Bader GinsburgTo succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin FranklinIf you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
Tom BradyI always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin PowellI would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya AngelouBeautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Christopher HitchensThe possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard ShawGreat leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin PowellIn matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiI have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen HawkingAn appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston ChurchillThe 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.
Edmund BurkeSurround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald ReaganFacts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainPolicy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.
Jim MattisIn order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon BonaparteI shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin LutherWisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil GibranI 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.
Emily DickinsonMeasuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. PattonThe issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.
Michelle ObamaWise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin FranklinThe torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
Napoleon BonaparteNothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon BonaparteI definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
Adam SandlerWaiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo CoelhoEvery family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret ThatcherWhen should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will RogersEngage your brain before you engage your weapon.
Jim MattisTo compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
Joyce MeyerIf I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.
Bad BunnyMy 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.
Cristiano RonaldoA woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. ChestertonShould you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren BuffettDon’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert CamusHaving unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David ByrneIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren BuffettI have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Dan QuayleWisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert HooverI’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala HarrisOn the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.
Stephen CurryI would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.
Kanye WestIndecision may or may not be my problem.
Jimmy BuffettI just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.
J. K. RowlingMy dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.
Robert KiyosakiPeople are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will RogersI don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.
Lando NorrisAs president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.
Michelle ObamaI think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouPeople are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise PascalThe court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIn countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson MandelaThere’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Noam ChomskyImagination decides everything.
Blaise Pascal