We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.
I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.
The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as president, Kennedy's decisions would be based on his religion and dictated by the pope.
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
