"We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women."
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"When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside."
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"Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas."
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"The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve."
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"At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability."
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"I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible."
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"I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law."
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"There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible."
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"There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course."
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"You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks."
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"One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me."
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"How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away."
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"What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region."
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"In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging."
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"Keep your money in the first place. Let`s make our companies competitive and let`s make good business decisions dominate their decision making, not what`s good for Washington carve outs."
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"What I find really difficult is making career decisions."
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"God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour."
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"The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide."
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"Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision."
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"He does not however postpone making decisions."
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