Eric Reid Quotes

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

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

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.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

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 hard to take a stand. You're not going to make everybody happy.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

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

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

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.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

If you're unpopular, it means you've done the tough things.

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

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

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.

'Brave' is very specific and extremely personal. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you're a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.

… how easily moral courage and common decency can be subverted by political expediency.

In war there are no easy choices.

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.