Quotes by Bill Bradley - Page 2

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 dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Sports
Basketball
Selfish
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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.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Love
Chinese
Hate
Long
Long Time
Love Time Hate
Love Time Long
Laugh
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Proverb
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A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Sports
Games
Motivation
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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.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Bankruptcy
Cases
Establishment
Injury
Malpractice
Special
Brought
Claiming
Courts
Judges
Parties
Similar
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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.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Championship
Passion
Resilient
Unselfish
Won
Same Things
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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 shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Long
Military
Numbers
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I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Comparison
Environment
Order
Sound
Walt
Physically
Experience People Know
People Say
Recognize
Scientific
Whitman
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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.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Amount
Closest
Feet
Maximum
Movement
Standing
Strategy
Basket
Shot
Easiest
Jump
Objective
Rule
Takes
Throw
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Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Friendship
Forgiveness
Motivational
Respect
Work
Teamwork
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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.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Campaigning
Please
Voice
Audiences
Authentic
Ring
Change The World
Change Truth Political
Observer
Rarely
Result
Roomful
Shake
Speaking
Whom
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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.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Independence
Cold
Cold War
Disregarded
Expansion
Intervention
Iraq War
Military
Nato
Prevailing
Russia
Serbia
Weak
War World View
Count
Washington
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Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Capital Gains
Gains
Income
Inherent
Logic
Rational
Tax
Bonds
Capital
Defer
Distinctions
Fully
Impose
Municipal
Types
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Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to America's sense of decency and compassion. Democrats also believe that it will lead to a healthier and more productive country.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Achieve
Compassion
Coverage
Decency
Truman
Believing
Countries
Democrats
Harry
Healthier
Industrialized
Speaks
Surely
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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 play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
War
Command And Control
Giving Up
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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 Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
America
Boys
Giving
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