Tough Decisions Quotes - Page 2

• Well there are tough decisions necessary in budgets. I agree there are tough decisions necessary to ensure the long-term health of the budget. What I don't accept and will never accept is that those decisions must be unfair as a matter of course.

  Chris Bowen

  Long, Decision, Matter

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The tough decisions that a president has to make in the Oval Office are in no way related to the capability of a person to do well on television. On the other hand, the capability of a person to project favorably on television enhances that person's odds of being elected so he can serve in the Oval Office. So you can't ignore the talents, one, to be very effective on television, and on the other hand, to be very effective as an operating president.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Odds, Hands, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Life, Emotional, Decision

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• The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

  Luke Donald

  Success, Past, Thinking

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• If we have to go through a mental exercise, yes or no, every time we are faced with a tough decision, we will continue to have trouble with living what we supposedly believe.

  LaVell Edwards

  Believe, Exercise, Decision

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

  Laura San Giacomo

  White, People, Evil

  Source: movieweb.com

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• In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.

  Barack Obama

  Crush, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

  Carolyn Hax

  Decision, Tough, Commit

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• ”In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power.”

  George W. Bush

  War, Decision, President

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• The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.

  George W. Bush

  Real, Years, Issues

  Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Editing rooms are kind of, by definition, a bubble of you and the editor and what you're thinking. It's a truth-telling thing to watch it through someone else's eyes, is to get another level of real with your material. Like, "Maybe that's not that funny. Maybe that's not as interesting. Maybe that's redundant to something else. Maybe we can cut down." I don't know. It's a brutal, honest process. You've got to be pretty - You can't be sentimental. You have to be. It's a cold process. You can't be nostalgic. You have to make those tough decisions.

  Richard Linklater

  Real, Eye, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a little bit of hesitancy about staying in Pittsburgh and not moving away for college, but that didn't last long. It was right in line with what I wanted, so I auditioned there and it wasn't a tough decision.

  Zachary Quinto

  Moving, College, Long

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• We have a lot of precedence for that; we've done that in the past. Or maybe that you want to sort of put that behind you. I don't know, that's - that's a tough decision [ seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton].

  Rudy Giuliani

  Past, Decision, Special

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

  Gary Johnson

  Mean, Decision, Balance

  "GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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• It really ups your production value when you have one person that you can use as your avatar through a story, but I think everyone gets their moment in time. That other couple definitely has their moment too, and they have to make some tough decisions.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Couple, Thinking, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Decision, Fowl

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• I'll be there for ya, girl. No matter what. Beck took a deep breath and released it slowly. He had to stay strong for her, make the tough decisions. It was best that Paul's daughter never know how he felt about her. There'd be less hurt that way, for both of them. Just keep her safe, God. I can settle for that.

  Jana Oliver

  Girl, Daughter, Stay Strong

  Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.324, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

  Ann Romney

  Decision, President, Looks

  "Romney features wife, touts 'character' in new ad" by Cameron Joseph, thehill.com. December 21, 2011.

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• I was definitely honored to be chosen, but I just didn't feel ready to be pitching in big games yet. It was a tough decision. I talked to my wife and my mother. I'm not sure I'm ready to be pitching in front of 40,000 to 50,000 people. I don't think I'd be helping Team USA or the Indians if I hurried up (his training schedule) and got hurt.

  CC Sabathia

  Mother, Hurt, Team

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• [Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Past, Decision, Tough

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• Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

  Martha Beck

  Focus, Decision, Understanding

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• In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

  Lucy Powell

  Party, Believe, Differences

  "Fiscal policy announcements show Labour and the Tories are diverging at last" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

  Harvey Weinstein

  People, Decision, Unions

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2011.

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• I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Years, Two, Decision

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• Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Decision, Tough, Economy

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