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  • I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

  • I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

    "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.
  • That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

    Regret   Decision   Looks  
  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • ...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

  • Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

  • I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.

    Thinking   Views   Hands  
    "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
  • I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

    Eels   Pool   Catfish  
    Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.
  • Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

  • Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

    Believe   Heart   Order  
    "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.
  • Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our heart, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in. It can be difficult and even frightening to go against the grain, whether it's a personal disagreement with a friend, partner, or family member or a professional decision that affects coworkers and colleagues.

    Believe   Heart   Order  
  • I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.

    "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
  • Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

    Debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Washington University, edition.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.
  • As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

    Decision   Used   Eldest  
  • You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

  • There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

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