Karl-Anthony Towns Quotes

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.

You've got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions... Whatever it is, if it's the right move at the right time, you've got to be also willing to make mistakes.

I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

The test of any man lies in action.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That's your call