Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
BILL BRADLEYWorking with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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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.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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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.
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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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We have to repair that trust … I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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