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.