#decisions

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. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#dangerous #decisions #hands #hard #imagine

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jim Talent

#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made. ↗

— Jim Talent

#confidence #creates #decisions #general #greater

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. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#came #closely #decisions #did #focus

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time. ↗

— Mike Quade

#everybody #going #make #please #time

For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured. “For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?” “You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#change

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#critics #decisions #good #i #made

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them. ↗

— Christine Pelosi

#courts #decisions #forward #go #interrogations

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. ↗

— Jon Porter

#believe #big #body #businesses #communities

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#follows #his #ignorant #makes #man