All I have are the people.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
Whenever Congress undertakes large-scale reform, there are times when disaster appears certain - only to be averted at the last minute by the good sense of its sometimes unfairly maligned members.
For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.
Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.
Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic.
When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.
That feeling of being the NBA Champion is really unparalleled, because you're the best in the world. Without question. How many people can say that in any profession?
I think Jeremy Lin is a really interesting player.
I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.
For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.
I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.
By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.
I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.
I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.
I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.
Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.
Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for one thing.
