Bill Bradley Quotes

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Bill Bradley

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 28, 1943

For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.

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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.

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

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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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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.

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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

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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.

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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.

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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

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

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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

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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.

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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.

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I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.

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

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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

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All I have are the people.

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