Policymaking is a series of trade-offs. The best course of…

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan

Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really…

— Bill Watterson

We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human…

— Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs,…

— Brad Pitt

Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth…

— Marya Hornbacher

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs…

— Bill Gates

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

— Christopher Hitchens

I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has…

— Ruth Davidson

Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of…

— Warren Farrell

Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy…

— Patricia Churchland

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least…

— Thomas Sowell

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

— Hillary Clinton

You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the…

— Bill Gates

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area.…

— Judy Woodruff

Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with…

— Gita Gopinath