Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
BILL BRADLEYWorking with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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