Quotes by Bill Bradley

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

“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.”

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

“I believe we need a new kind of leadership, a leadership that puts the people front and center, not the president.”

“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 dont even know that theyre leaders.”

“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.”

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

“I knew when I got into this race that it wouldnt be easy. Anything worth fighting for in life rarely is,”

“But my convictions of where we are as a country and where we can go are so deep that I made the decision to take on the establishment and run.”

“We each (China and the United States) believe we are the center of the universe, so naturally we are going to bump up against each other,”

“I will fight to make sure that (privacy protection) occurs,”

“I ask myself what he would want a presidential candidate or a president to do at this time in our countrys history.”

“Im trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,”

“You have to face up to this if youre going to be a strong leader,”

“I believe that we need a strong president that is not going to back away from affirmative action,”

“I would say quite clearly that white Americans can no longer deny the plight of black Americans,”

“Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.”