Michael Ledeen Quotes

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Politics is the science of the second best.

When you have to choose between two evils, the choice is going to be evil.

[In a political contest] If you are faced with the lesser of two evils, you have the evil of two lesser.