Mike Quade Quotes

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

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

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.

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.

To govern is to chose.

If I accept the job, you will still interfere. I don’t want to fall out with you, as I believe that you are the right man to save the nation at the head of the army.

Now I know how Jack feels when he has told three people that they can each be Secretary of State.

Everyone here wants to drag me into your particular projects. I’ve always supported what you wanted to do, even when I disagreed. You wanted to go raise hell—but they were going to blame me. You have all these brilliant ideas. But I’m the one that’s going to get killed.

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.

People are decisions and actions.

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

I have to just come to work every single day. That's not just on the field but off the field, because you have little kids looking up to you; your face is the face of this franchise and this university. You have to understand that every decision that you make is going to be criticized.

I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

I'm aware of the fact that people that are watching to see what I do next - It's challenging to make the best decisions, and I don't always get it right.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.