Henry Paulson Quotes

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

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

When things need shaking up, there usually isn’t a nice way of doing it. A good result might be worth a hurtful word.

It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost.

Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.

Sometimes compromise is painful.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Leaders grasp nettles.

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

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

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

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

In dealing with big problems, you may miss your mark by looking too far ahead

We like to make tough speeches, but we don't like to make tough choices.

We've got a rattlesnake by the tail, and the sooner we pound its damn head in the better.

Government is about hard choices.

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

It’s less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decisions and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it might be loathsome.

Compromises make all of us swallow hard.

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.