Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
BILL BRADLEYLeadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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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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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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
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How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.
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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
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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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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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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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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 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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