Imperfect Choices Quotes

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.