Quotes About Uncertainty

There is no risk-free path for monetary policy.

2005 is highly likely to be a more challenging environment, both for policymakers and investors.

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

There is no gambling like politics.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.

As my grandma used to say, 'Between now and then, a pope could be born.' We never say what's going to happen tomorrow. We make the most of today.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to take my music and how I wanted to be portrayed, and it was sort of, not done for me, but more directed.

I don't know how to pose or anything.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.

I always hate taking categorical positions.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

I don't know about the future; no one really does. I'm excited about the possibilities of what can happen, and I feel good about it.