William M. Daley Quotes

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

The presidency is not about easy choices.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

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.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

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

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

The most difficult issues—the toughest decisions—are the ones that invariably end up on the President’s desk.

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

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.

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

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

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

This is the sort of decision that presidents must make: Hard choices with insufficient information.

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

In the White House there is nothing more valuable than the President’s time.

Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

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.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.