Decision Quotes - Page 153

If you look at my policies they're all aimed at empowering people to make their own decisions.

When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that's a tough moment. If you're a faithful person you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through.

I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

I'm comfortable that I made the best decisions I possibly could.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment.

Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision.

[Saddam Hussein] could have easily reconstituted a program. He was a threat to peace before we went in. He'd have been a threat to peace had we left him in power. Oftentimes history judges you on the decisions you make.

I said, going into Iraq, "We've got to take threats seriously before they full materialize." I saw a threat. I fully believe it was the right decision to remove Saddam Hussein, and I fully believe the world is better off without him.

The administration took care of a source of instability in Iraq. Envision a world in which Saddam Hussein was rushing for a nuclear weapon to compete against Iran. My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the correct decision in my judgment. We didn't find the weapons we thought we would find or the weapons everybody thought he had. But he was a significant source of instability.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.

Those who heralded the decision not to give law enforcement the tools necessary to protect the American people just simply don't see the world the way we do.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.