Bill Bradley Quotes

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Bill Bradley

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 28, 1943

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

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Democrats must rally behind a low-rate, broad-based tax system that is fair, simple and efficient.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

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When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.

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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.

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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?

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I think Jeremy Lin is a really interesting player.

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I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

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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.

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Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

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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.

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