Bill Bradley Quotes

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• Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
• Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the…
• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
• Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
• Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
• People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as…
• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
• Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the…
• How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of…
• Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
• We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely…
• 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 because I wasn't…
• When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
• The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
• The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a…
• We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
• For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you…
• Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should…
• The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the…

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