Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist particularly among our veterans and to move forward with a positive relationship ... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact from the moment they came into power Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples the decisions that have to be made when health hardships are faced when economic hardships are faced I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

Science is the international language so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science that's a real success story for us.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

Medical professionals not insurance company bureaucrats should be making health care decisions.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies people think they aren't important.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard fast and specific decision.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals businesses and government.

In a democracy citizens pass judgment on their government and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives our health care President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.