You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren’t going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people. – Jeff Gordon
I’m a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place. – John Thune
Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves. – Iain Duncan Smith
The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have. – John Barrasso
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. – James Randi
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. – Jimmy Carter
We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands. – Josh Fox
‘Plutona’ is the story of five kids who find the body of the world’s greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It’s about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually. – Jeff Lemire
Washington faces many challenges these days, and today’s United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd. – John Fleming
When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?… Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices… people are struggling with those profound issues. – Hillary Clinton
If someone really wants my company’s business, why shouldn’t he be able to do everything he can – including paying me off – to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources. – James Surowiecki
Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions. – Jacqueline Novogratz
I don’t want Washington – let me be perfectly clear – I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines. – Jan Brewer
Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don’t tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best. – Jimmy Johnson
It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be. – Janet Yellen
We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions. – Joyce Meyer
I eat well. I don’t really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don’t make bad decisions. – John Cena
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners – breadwinners – but we don’t know how to control empires. – Jackee Harry
There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak. – Jim Lee
There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions. – Janet Reno
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we’re going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands. – Jim Crace
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent ‘Basement Tapes’ will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson’s reasons for the destruction of the tapes for ‘Smile.’ – Jon Landau
Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy. – Jack Dangermond
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven’t been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. – Justin Bieber
Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You’re going to make decisions, you’re going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong. – Jeremy Stoppelman
General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made. – Jim Talent
Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you. – John C. Maxwell
Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation. – James Lankford