Hillary Clinton Quotes

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions that benefit innovators and the American people.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Go with the science!.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.