Quotes About Decision-making

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

The secretary of defense makes recommendations, sometimes will make strong recommendations to the president of the United States. But the president, whoever it is at that time, decides, makes the call on whether or not to take that recommendation.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

In business, I can get the big picture, thebig ideas, but not the finer details. I am good at delegating, however, and trusting the people to whom I do delegate.

The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Fourth quarter, tied ballgame, why not try to get your best player involved?

I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

I can play either in the centre or wide. I can do whatever the manager thinks is best for the team.

I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.

It is in the interest of Americans to find out what those wanting to be president think about a wide range of challenges and what they might do about them. We should want to get their take on the wisdom of past decisions, what they agree and disagree with, and why.

In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.

I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.

If you're girlfriend or your wife ever asks you to go on 'Jerry Springer,' don't go. It's not good.