The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
~By Edward de Bono ~
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 ~
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
~By Ed Harris ~
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 decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
~By Denis Diderot ~
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
~By Terrence Howard ~
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 ~
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
~By John Lithgow ~
I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
~By Jesse Helms ~
I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.
~By Gladys Knight ~
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
~By Kent McCord ~
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
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 ~
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 ~
What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.
~By Anthony Principi ~
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 ~
Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
~By Chuck Close ~
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
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 ~
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
~By James Mansfield ~
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 ~
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.
~By Tim Reid ~
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 ~
They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
~By Kelly Preston ~
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 ~
Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
~By Peter Drucker ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
~By Jay Roach ~
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.
~By Puff Daddy ~
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
~By John Mellencamp ~
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
~By Lara St. John ~
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.
~By Lloyd Cutler ~
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
~By James Callaghan ~
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 ~
Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
~By Frank Butler ~
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
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 do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
~By Charles Schumer ~
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
~By Birch Bayh ~
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 ~
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 ~
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
~By Tom Ridge ~
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 point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
~By Christian Bale ~
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
~By Ted Nelson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
~By Karl Rove ~
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 ~
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
~By Marvin Bower ~
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 ~
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
~By Howard Baker ~
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 ~
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 ~
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
~By Alan Autry ~
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 ~
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 ~
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
~By John Cale ~
I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
~By Dennis C. Blair ~
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
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 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 ~
We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
~By Marcel Proust ~
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
~By Stephen Covey ~
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 ~
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