Ozzie Guillen Quotes

When you sign your name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

If officials on the spot commit in good faith an error of judgment, which is worse—to support them or to throw them over?

There are a lot of smart people in politics and government, but character matters ... it is terribly important that the two be melded.

An important quality for a President of the United States is to make decisions and live with the consequences of them

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Avoid what will require an apology.

You cannot influence a political party to do right if you stick to it when it does wrong.

It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?

I don’t want you to be a laughing stock … a circus where we just throw people out the minute they make a tough decision. Don’t do this. Don’t do this.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.