Quotes About Decision

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

I quit politics because I hated it.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.