In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science. ~By Mike Johanns ~
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. ~By Charles Schumer ~
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 ~
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. ~By Mike DeWine ~
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 ~
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. ~By Irving R. Kaufman ~
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 ~
I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions. ~By Mats Sundin ~
There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions. ~By Rich Lowry ~
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. ~By J Allard ~
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. ~By Sam Rayburn ~
There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions. ~By Charlie Hunnam ~
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. ~By Queen Latifah ~
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 ~
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. ~By Samuel E. Morison ~
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~By Roy E. Disney ~
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ~By Robert Teeter ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington. ~By Howard Coble ~
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 ~
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. ~By Christie Hefner ~
But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart. ~By Brent Scowcroft ~
It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. ~By Corey Feldman ~
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 ~
If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. ~By Joss Whedon ~
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 ~
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 ~
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. ~By Peter Mandelson ~
I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like. ~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
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 ~
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ~By Denis Diderot ~
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 ~
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny. ~By Dave Rowntree ~
The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI. ~By Tom Hayden ~
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 ~
Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions. ~By Dontrelle Willis ~
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. ~By Kathleen Turner ~
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. ~By Kevin Mitnick ~
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. ~By Peter Drucker ~
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. ~By Otto von Bismarck ~
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason. ~By Michael K. Simpson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. ~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions. ~By Eric Cantor ~
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. ~By Thornton Wilder ~
I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. ~By Twyla Tharp ~
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. ~By Scott Cook ~
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ~By Oscar Hammerstein II ~
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all. ~By Rex Stout ~
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~By Wendell Berry ~
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion. ~By Scott Stapp ~
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 ~
If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first. ~By Chris Christie ~
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them. ~By Christine Pelosi ~
Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself. ~By Charisma Carpenter ~
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 ~
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process. ~By Mike Johanns ~
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 ~
I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before. ~By Matt Gonzalez ~
Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way. ~By Laura Bush ~
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 ~
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation. ~By Jodi Rell ~
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 ~
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. ~By James Randi ~
It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast. ~By Ridley Scott ~
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. ~By Dan Abrams ~
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 ~
And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy. ~By Jon Porter ~
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears. ~By Thomas S. Monson ~
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. ~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be. ~By Dick Murphy ~
And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions. ~By William Scranton ~
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. ~By Ralph Neas ~
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 ~
The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans. ~By Tabare Vazquez ~
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist. ~By Graham Nash ~
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options. ~By Robert Half ~
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
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 ~
Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions. ~By Jim Evans ~
If in doubt, move decisions up to the President. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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 ~
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ~By Arthur Ashe ~
We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions. ~By George Carey ~
I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. ~By John Sherman Cooper ~
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ~By Paul Wellstone ~
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ~By James Callaghan ~
A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them. ~By Robert Wise ~
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. ~By Barbara Boxer ~
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them. ~By Robert Teeter ~
We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions. ~By Henry W. Kendall ~
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 ~
Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made. ~By Darren L. Johnson ~
I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it. ~By Dan Marino ~
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now. ~By Fred Thompson ~
You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. ~By Rupert Murdoch ~
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. ~By Noam Chomsky ~
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