Words matter. These are the best Bill Bradley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.
Democrats must rally behind a low-rate, broad-based tax system that is fair, simple and efficient.
At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did not count in a unipolar world. We disregarded Russia’s opposition to NATO expansion, the Iraq War, and the U.S.-led military intervention in Serbia for the independence of Kosovo.
Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you’re the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?
I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I’ve been, for one thing.
Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It… challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
I’ve never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.
That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you’re the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?
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 hate, those who you love and those who you don’t even know that they’re leaders.
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 hate, those who you love and those who you don’t even know that they’re leaders.
Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.
I’ve never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.
The U.S. actions in Kosovo – carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation – provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
I always thought the objective of basketball was to get the maximum amount of movement to get the easiest shot, closest to the basket. With the three-point rule, the whole strategy changes, and you make a move and then throw it 30 feet out, where somebody takes a standing jump shot.
I think Jeremy Lin is a really interesting player.
For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking… As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.
The U.S. actions in Kosovo – carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation – provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.
If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.
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 environment has to be preserved.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
All I have are the people.
For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking… As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
Whenever Congress undertakes large-scale reform, there are times when disaster appears certain – only to be averted at the last minute by the good sense of its sometimes unfairly maligned members.
By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.
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 environment has to be preserved.
I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.
Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts – similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts – with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.
For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.
If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts – similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts – with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.
I never allowed other people’s expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.
