That’s one difficulty about a democracy. Nothing ever gets decided—even after its been decided.
We always defer … kick the can down the road. The only way you get into trouble in politics is to make choices.
I don't like politicians who vacillate.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
I've kind of come to a place to where I don't really condemn anyone for what their conscience tells them to do because I'm not happy with my choice that I'm making personally on, you know, not voting for somebody that I think can win.
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.
Donald Trump hasn't decided, and most importantly, we don't know if the old rules still apply.
The undecideds could go one way or the other.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
The longer political leaders shy away from the tough decisions, the greater the chance that there will be a lot more of them.
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
