Bill Bradley People Quotations

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Should I demand that people in the military agree with a position? They don't have to agree with the position, they have to follow the order.

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

I don't think it's all locked up for Gore ... People make their own independent judgments in this matter. My approach is going right to the members.

I think (the endorsement) will send a very clear message that I belong to the people of the country, and the people will have their say,

I think that the people of Maine aren't going to listen to pollsters and pundits, ... I think they're going to vote their hearts and their convictions.

I went to hear the concerns first hand of the 600 who came there to meet me. That was a legitimate thing to do. We have to allow people the right to grow, we have to allow people the right to evolve,

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

My case to labor is that I respect them and I respect their role in getting a higher standard of living for people in this country. I was a labor leader myself, and my wife is a labor union member.

What we have to do is allow the people to set the agenda for this country and not the special interests through campaign finance reform,

You cannot have an economy at 6.9 percent and have 45 percent of the people here (in Spokane), earning under $14,000 a year,

The vice president will have more money. We will have enough money to tell the people what I believe.

People evolve, but you should not go around saying you believe in a woman's right to choose,

the most lasting contribution that a president ever makes. ... Therefore I feel it is imperative that the president search to find people of integrity ... not someone who's locked into a rigid interpretation of the constitution, someone who sees the law as something that lives and breathes.

I'm not going to (put forward) a health plan that is not going to give the people of New Hampshire access to a variety of health plans,

I'll be laying out what I think are important things for this country to do in these times of unprecedented prosperity. And I'll have a special message for young people in the country,

I hope that all leaders in this country will be innovative in trying to find ways to reach out to people to challenge their best instincts as opposed to playing to their worst instincts.

By the time we get to February 1, people will know who I am, what I believe, what I'm for, and what I would like to do if I were president,

the kinds of things I've been talking about are the kinds of things that will improve their lives in terms of increasing the number of people with health insurance, helping those with low incomes, in terms of providing for continuing education and in terms of making it easier to organize.