Enda Kenny Quotes

How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

There is enough water ... but the systems we have in place do not have enough flexibility to move water to the places where it is most needed.

Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it's directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.

The government can build institutional infrastructure to address the paradox of floods and calamities in some parts of the country, and water scarcity in other parts.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.

If you get an opportunity, you get an opportunity, but it really comes down to the people behind the scenes and the manager. You can't do anything about it.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.

Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.

A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.

You can't look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.

In the Army, we address a crisis by identifying critical objectives, planning a response, marshaling resources and communicating the plan clearly.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.

The more games you play, the more game management you learn.

I've been mayor for five years. I've led a city. And directed a police department. I know how to use resources.

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

We must carefully examine regulations that could threaten the state of Arizona's water and power supply.