The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder

If in doubt, move decisions up to the President.
Donald Rumsfeld

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
Donald Rumsfeld

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.
Donald Rumsfeld

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
Donald Rumsfeld

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
Donald Rumsfeld

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
Avril Lavigne

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.
Maxine Waters

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.
Justin Timberlake

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Brian Eno

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
Tim McGraw

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.
Mary Tyler Moore

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
Lord Mountbatten