Bill Bradley

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly,…

— Bill Bradley

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game…

— Bill Bradley

Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts -…

— Bill Bradley

Democrats must rally behind a low-rate, broad-based tax system that is fair, simple and efficient.

— Bill Bradley

I always thought the objective of basketball was to get the maximum amount of movement to get the easiest shot, closest to…

— Bill Bradley

Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

— Bill Bradley

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

— Bill Bradley

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian…

— Bill Bradley

I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was…

— Bill Bradley

The U.S. actions in Kosovo - carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation - provided the…

— Bill Bradley

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

— Bill Bradley

The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you…

— Bill Bradley

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose…

— Bill Bradley

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to…

— Bill Bradley

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

— Bill Bradley

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

— Bill Bradley

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change…

— Bill Bradley

Whenever Congress undertakes large-scale reform, there are times when disaster appears certain - only to be averted at the last minute by…

— Bill Bradley

Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely…

— Bill Bradley

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out,…

— Bill Bradley

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the…

— Bill Bradley

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying,…

— Bill Bradley

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will…

— Bill Bradley

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my…

— Bill Bradley

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from…

— Bill Bradley