Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
- Bill Bradley Quote

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Bill Bradley Quote

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.
- Bill Bradley Quote

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
- Bill Bradley Quote

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
- Bill Bradley Quote

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
- Bill Bradley Quote

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
- Bill Bradley Quote

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
- Bill Bradley Quote

There are different kinds of leadership. For example, in the Senate there's a totally different kind of leadership than in the Executive Branch. I reflected once in the Senate that there are four kinds of leaders, generally. This is an old Chinese proverb. There's the leader who's laughed at, the leader who's feared, the leader who's loved, and the leader who the people didn't even know was a leader. The last leader defines the ultimate legislative leadership. It's leadership that truly makes things happen without taking credit.
- Bill Bradley Quote (Tikkun)

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
- Bill Bradley Quote

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
- Bill Bradley Quote

You have people you admire, role models for emulation, when you're younger, but not so much when you're older. You've lived life enough to know that everybody is human, nobody's a hero per se. In terms of those who influenced my politics, I did a senior thesis about Harry Truman's first re-election to the Senate in 1940. That was influential. And probably Robert Kennedy had a bigger impact on me than anybody else.
- Bill Bradley Quote (Tikkun)