Carly Fiorina Quotes

Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

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

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

I am a war president.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

I've made tough calls and tough times and been held accountability. I think that is the kind of leadership that the American people need now to produce results.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.

Through my time in the military and my deployments, I have recognized the importance of having a Commander in Chief who will not only go after those who threaten the safety and security of the American people, but who will also exercise good judgment and foresight in stopping these failed interventionist wars of regime change that have cost our country so much in human lives, untold suffering, and trillions of dollars.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.