Betsy Hodges Quotes

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

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

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

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

[In politics:] He who dallies is a dastard; he who doubts is damned.

For the first ten years or so, you would always question whether the decisions were right or wrong, but you have to learn to put things behind you once a decision is made. You can't be wishy-washy about it

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.

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

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

In the tough and dangerous world in which we live a President must always say what he means and mean what he says.

An important quality for a President of the United States is to make decisions and live with the consequences of them

I'm a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there's a lot of integrity in that.

I'm a rather decisive type.

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.