#decision

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#about #decisions #defence #economist #economy

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#decisions #effect #effects #experience #ignore

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#decision #going #immediately #make #realistic

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. ↗

— Luis Figo

#barcelona #change #country #decision #did

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. ↗

— John W. Foster

#decision #himself #man #never #said

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. ↗

— David Frum

#decisions #door #go #heads #inside

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. ↗

— David Frum

#business #congress #conservative #decisions #excuses

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#after #any #coming #could #decision

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#apartment #ask #attractive #because #buildings

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances