Michael Bennet Quotes

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

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

Progress comes at a price. You have to be willing to make tough calls and take the hits.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Leaders grasp nettles.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

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

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.