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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
I think Jeremy Lin is a really interesting player.
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.
Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.
Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.
Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.
Democrats must rally behind a low-rate, broad-based tax system that is fair, simple and efficient.
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
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.
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 ready.
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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.
A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
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 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.
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.
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 the key.
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.
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
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 well as a commitment that leads to real change.
The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.
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.
The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.
