Donald Trump Quotes

Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

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

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

I don’t know what the people want, but I know what is needed by the people of Israel.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

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

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

What you risk reveals what you value.

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

A man's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands.

To govern is to chose.

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

Every time a mayor makes a big decision, half the people are against him. After his first 5 decisions the only ones left who support him are his family and a few friends.

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

It's easy to be popular when you don't make the decisions a president makes. And it's easy to be unpopular when you're the president because you're making decisions that at the time might seem unpopular; but when historians sort it out, it changes.

As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.