When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making. – Bob Woodward
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions. – Antonio Damasio
After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it’s always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them. – Brittany Murphy
In order to win in this league, you have to have a quarterback who can make all the throws, who makes great decisions, somebody who can get you out of bad situations, that just gives you a chance. – Benjamin Watson
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. – Barbara Boxer
Once you’ve achieved success, and you’re making decisions that are working, I don’t understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves. – Chelsea Handler
Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games – it’s all important. – Bill Belichick
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we’ve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it’s too late. – Clayton M. Christensen
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. – Corazon Aquino
In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it’s challenge. – Anand Sharma
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones. – Bill Dedman
I’m a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there’s a lot of integrity in that. – Bill Goldberg
In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults. – Adora Svitak
We’re willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we’re entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state. – Benjamin Netanyahu
We have the wrong impression of life. We think the very big incidents of our lives are consequences of huge dilemmas or major decisions. If we paid attention, we’d realize that the determining incidents in our lives are ordinary things. – Asghar Farhadi
Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health. – Ann McLane Kuster
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort. – Bill Kristol
There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions. – Charlie Hunnam
I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. – Byron Dorgan
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. – Barney Frank
There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law. – Brigitte Bardot
The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise. – Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. – Antony Beevor
‘Referring the matter to a committee’ can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. – Antony Jay
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them. – Christine Pelosi
It’s funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. – Corey Feldman
