Tough Choice Quotes

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

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

Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.

[In a political contest] If you are faced with the lesser of two evils, you have the evil of two lesser.

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided.

For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

When you have to choose between two evils, the choice is going to be evil.

The girl or the world, you see someone gotta lose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose?

Whoever you name as captain, it's a hard choice.

The right way is not necessarily the easy one.

The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.