Kenya Barris Quotes

Sometimes, you have to take a stand; you cannot make everyone happy.

It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

It’s less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it might be loathsome.

Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

Especially when you're a leader, you have to do the things that aren't the popular choice. But that's fine, you have to be able to make those decisions, without a doubt.

Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

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.

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

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

Sometimes you’ve got to do what is right even though it might be ahead of the people.

Ultimately all the options are ugly… These decisions are very, very difficult

In war there are no easy choices.

You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones.