Alexis Ohanian Quotes

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

You never ask the public individual to decide. You can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to decide.

We need to be able to make decisions even though part of the information that we have is incorrect and wrong.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

Get advice, then make your own decision.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders …?

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.

Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president - and the president alone - who always makes the final call.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

You need to have the advice from experienced people coming from different kinds of educational and backgrounds in general, and then you can make a decision. But you need people around you that you trust to give you advice, and you need to make sure that the facts of the case are presented.

Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'