Edward Grey Quotes

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

The Nation trembled on the brink. Events moved with such speed that it was necessary to decide to act on the instant, as each successive crisis arose.

You must ... communicate your passion to others and act accordingly, without hesitation when your decision is once made.

Each crisis brings its word and deed.

In our government we drive decisions either by leadership of by crises. If the leadership is not there, we rely on crises.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The most difficult issues—the toughest decisions—are the ones that invariably end up on the President’s desk.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

We must not be shocked into impotence because we are afraid of the difficulty of the alternatives facing us.

There’s nothing wrong with a politician saying ‘I don’t know.’ Especially in a disaster there is nothing wrong with saying ‘I don’t know.’

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

The longer political leaders shy away from the tough decisions, the greater the chance that there will be a lot more of them.

To solve a major crisis, you have to do things you would never do in normal times or even in a modest crisis…. What feels just and fair is often just the opposite of what is required for a just and fair outcome. It is why policy makers generally tend to make crises worse, and why the politics of crises management is always untenable.

Analysts can choose the problems that they want to study whereas the statesman’s problems are imposed on him.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

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

Oftentimes the easy decision and comfortable decision is not the right one.