When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.
You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.
Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
New is easy. Right is hard.
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.
It was a hard decision to leave Norwich, and you have to take into account a lot of things - could I make the step up? Do I want to have another season of really showing what I can do?
I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.
Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.
Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
