Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
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.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.
~By Mike Rounds ~
This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American.
~By Rick Perry ~
We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
~By Barney Frank ~
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
~By Gary Bauer ~
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
~By Marvin Bower ~
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
~By Tabare Vazquez ~
If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
~By John Harrison ~
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
~By Rex Stout ~
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
~By David Boies ~
I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.
~By Linda Lingle ~
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
~By Shimon Peres ~
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
~By Keri Russell ~
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.
~By Jack Welch ~
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
~By Martha Reeves ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
~By John Olver ~
This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
~By Rick Perry ~
But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.
~By Stone Gossard ~
I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.
~By Bobby Brown ~
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
~By Paul Ryan ~
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.
~By Michael Biehn ~
At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
~By Linda Lingle ~
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
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.
~By Scott McCallum ~
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
~By Georg Henrik von Wright ~
I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
~By John W. Snow ~
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
~By Simon Pegg ~
But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
~By Mike Johanns ~
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
~By C. Northcote Parkinson ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~By John Mellencamp ~
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
~By Jim Bunning ~
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.
~By George W. Bush ~
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
~By Rene Dubos ~
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
~By Alan Autry ~
Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
~By Hodding Carter ~
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
~By Hamilton Jordan ~
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.
~By Jimmy Johnson ~
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
~By Merton Miller ~
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
~By James Callaghan ~
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
~By James Mansfield ~
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.
~By Mike Johanns ~
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.
~By Jim Walton ~
It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
~By Primo Angeli ~
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
~By Gerhard Schroeder ~
I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
~By George W. Bush ~
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15 straight months of job gains, cut taxes 26 times, and focused like a laser on getting the middle class back on its feet while those campaigning to replace him have failed to show they can lead on these issues.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
~By Peter Weir ~
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
~By Lloyd Cutler ~
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
~By John Engler ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
~By David Cameron ~
Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.
~By Duncan Hunter ~
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
~By Avril Lavigne ~
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
~By Jim Walton ~
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
~By Rex Hunt ~
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
~By George W. Bush ~
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