There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
It is the curse of greatness that one must step over dead bodies to create new life
Even the best-intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.
In every match, there are difficult decisions; sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes against. You need to be able to accept them.
It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.
I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.
The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
[As the minority] you vote for the legislation that’s presented to you. That’s sometimes a very difficult choice to make.
sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.
There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.
Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
It's life, man, and life is never easy.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.
CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.
The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are the best to do.
We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.
