Bill Bradley Quotes

Gary Johnson's refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not ready for the presidency.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

I have never found, in a long experience in politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

To be honest, I've made a lot mistakes and I quite like making them because you learn from them.

In 2008, many Democrats and Republicans believed Hillary Clinton to be a responsible public leader - a firm hand on the wheel, experienced in matters of diplomacy, conflict, and national interest. The 3 A.M. phone call was a question mark with Barack Obama, but not for Hillary Clinton.

You make mistakes in your life, especially when you're young.

We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.

For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.

What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.

We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States.

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

There were mistakes that I made that I did learn from. When you don't have responsibilities, the only responsibility is for yourself, but when you have someone there to mentor you, then you don't make stupid mistakes.

Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."