The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.
I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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.