100+ Michael Bloomberg Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "March 24: Michael Bloomberg, Wayne LaPierre, David Boies, Richard Engel, Ralph Reed, Hilary Rosen, E.J. Dionne, David Brooks". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. March 24, 2013.

Topics: Freedom, Thinking, Certain, Your Freedom

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

Topics: America, People, Decision

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

Topics: Hard Work, Right Time

We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

Topics: Optimistic, Thinking, America

You must first be willing to fail â€” and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

Topics: Firsts, Failing, Willing

The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.

Topics: Opportunity, Giving, People, Estate Taxes

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

Topics: America, People, Done

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

Topics: School, Pay, Results

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Topics: Thinking, Government, House, Community Centers, Houses Of Worship

The problem of dealing with the financial industry is that you can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem.

Topics: Giving, Half, Want

When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

Topics: Smile, Couple, Sleep, Uptown

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

Topics: Country, Mistake, Thinking

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

Topics: Dream, Native American, Cities, City Walls

We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.

Topics: Mean, Successful, Essence

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

source: - Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

Topics: Father, Writing, Years, Naacp, Bookkeepers

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

source: - Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

Topics: Want, Problem, Public Education

Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.

Topics: Morning, Children, Taken, Remembrance For 9 11

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

Topics: Believe, Mirrors, Want, Honest With Yourself

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

source: - "Summit Seeks to Bridge Political Divide". "Morning Edition" with Wade Goodwyn, www.npr.org. January 8, 2008.

Topics: People, Together, Working Together

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

Topics: Character, Want, Agree

The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning the graffiti off buildings, we stopped supporting our cultural institutions and building parks and schools and all those kinds of things.

Topics: Mistake, School, Parks

If you have one farm worker, typically they create three jobs with higher compensation and higher skills - the people that pack, the people that ship, the people that inspect, the people that sell, that sort of thing.

Topics: Jobs, Skills, People

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

Topics: Hard Work, Thinking, Long

When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.

Topics: Kids, Helping Others, Thinking

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

Topics: Jobs, Inspiration, Done

Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.

Topics: Heart, Years, September 11, Together As One

Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples

Topics: Dream, Sex, Couple

The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.

Topics: Religious, Racism, Community, Religious Hatred

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

Topics: Worry

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Topics: Birthday, Europe, America, Trading Partners

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Topics: Expectations

I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.

Topics: Dream, Power, Manhattan, Wet Dreams

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Topics: People, Tragedy, Looks, Dangerous World, Terrible Tragedy

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

Topics: Proud, Should, Be Proud

Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom

Topics: New York, Opportunity, Cities

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

Topics: Graduation, Games, Numbers, Buzzers

Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.

Topics: Business, Successful, Opposites

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

Topics: Bridges, Looks, Gone, 1930s, Made In China

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

Topics: Law, Skills, Giving, Pointing, Visa

I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.

Topics: Communication, Thinking, Media

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Topics: Mother, Daughter, New York, Son And Daughter, Statue Of Liberty

Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.

Topics: New York, Gun, Law, Illegal Guns

I've always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake and develop my own point of view. But the first thing you've got to do is you've got to let people speak and you've got to listen. And that's what the first amendment is all about. That's what really distinguishes this country from others.

Topics: Country, Block, Views, Deeper Understanding

Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

Topics: Father, Israel, Years, Facility

There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I've said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life.

Topics: Each Day, Tongue, Tomorrow

We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

Topics: Talking, Sick, Dying, Sick And Dying

Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

Topics: Real, Opportunity, Differences, Spare Time, Public Sector

We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.

Topics: Party, Believe, Independent

Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

Topics: Party, Coffee, Today

The press really is not doing its job of holding the candidates' feet to the fire. The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

Topics: Jobs, Feet, Fire, Tough Questions

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Topics: New York, Men, Dysfunction, New York State

When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

Topics: Air, Giving, Say Anything

Our climate is changing. And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that it may be - given the devastation it is wreaking - should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

Topics: New York, Cities, Weather, Immediate Action, Elected Leaders

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Topics: Army, Nypd, World, Entrees

Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.

Topics: Secret, Trying, Democracy, Collective Bargaining, Common Interests

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

Topics: Friday, Night, Men, Friday Night, East Side

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Topics: Government, Democracy, Treats

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Terrible Tragedy

Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

Topics: President, United States, States

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

Topics: Dog, Opposites, World

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Topics: Dream, New York, War

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

Topics: Independent, Funny Graduation, Principles

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Topics: Entrepreneur, Planning, Mao, Central Planning

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Topics: School, World, Wells, Best School

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

Topics: Waiting, Growth, Bigs

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.

Topics: Passion, Catchy, Temper

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

Topics: Dream, Disappointment, Careers

My personal view is, why don't you get out there and try to do something about the things that you don't like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream. But if you want to yell and scream, we'll make sure you can do it.

Topics: Jobs, Wall, Views, Personal Views

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Topics: Community, Important, Benches

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Topics: Progress, Inevitable

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Topics: Mountain, Ifs

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Topics: Ideas, Entrepreneurship, Will Power

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Topics: Facts, Opinion, Entitled

Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.

source: - Speech at Tufts University, 2007.

Topics: Pain, Team, Responsibility

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

source: - "Bloomberg’s Day" by Micah Sifry, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2007.

Topics: Feet, President, Doe, Becoming President

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

Topics: Air, Cities, People, Clean Air

I know a con when I see one.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Knows

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

Topics: Cities, Would Be, Tonight

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

source: - "NYC mayor paints bleak picture in 'doomsday' budget". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2003.

Topics: Reality, Balance, Cold, Cold Heart, Harsh Reality

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

Topics: Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Decision

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

source: - "Bloomberg will decide on White House bid by early March" by John King, edition.cnn.com. January 10, 2008.

Topics: Ideas, Focus, Accountability

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

Topics: Law, Borders, Cards, Biometrics

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

Topics: Fighting, Opportunity, Growth, Public Health

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

source: - "New York's Bloomberg takes SUV to green car event" by Tim McLaughlin, uk.reuters.com. June 15, 2007.

Topics: People, Mass Transit, Fossils

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

source: - Source: abcnews.go.com

Topics: Running, America, Want, God Help, God Help Us

I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.

source: - "Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A". Article by Jeremy W. Peters, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 2014.

Topics: Heaven, Headings

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

Topics: Believe, Giving, Honest

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Topics: Class, Half, Students

What I'm trying to do is to create excitement. So people looking at the Bloomberg's office building say, "My goodness, what's going on here? There's something different about this company." You want the employees to get psyched. And it's a chance to meet each other. My job is to get people to work together. With free food and no offices, even for Bloomberg, this might be considered one of the world's great corporate headquarters.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: People, Office, Working Together

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

Topics: Mad, Frustrated, Progress

If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.

source: - "My Commitment to Giving". Giving Pledge letter, givingpledge.org.

Topics: Children, Organization, Support

We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

source: - Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

Topics: Dream, New York, Business, Belief In Yourself, If You Believe In Yourself

I thought Jeb Bush would have made a good president. He was on the board of my foundation. He's very conservative, much too conservative for me.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: President, Foundation, Boards

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.

source: - Interview with Janette Sadik-Khan, www.fastcodesign.com. September 11, 2013.

Topics: People, Design, Doe

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

source: - "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

Topics: Cutting, Entitlement, Economic, Tax Breaks

You can't depend on polls.

Topics: Polls, Depends

We have always had, remember, small groups of both parties that split off. There were the "blue dog Democrats." There were the "Dixie Democrats." Democrats were never going to, ever again, pull together.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Dog, Party, Blue, Dixie

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

Topics: Gun, People, Knows

Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but think of it this way: Every other anti-poverty program that’s been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent... Why shouldn’t we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders – capitalism?

source: - Mayor Bloomberg's Address to The Brookings Center On Children And Families "briefing On The Census Poverty Report", www1.nyc.gov. August 28, 2007.

Topics: Thinking, People, Might

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

source: - Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley

Topics: Use, Stubborn, Appropriate, Describe Myself

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, Hands, Creating Jobs

Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.

source: - "Future of the Internet: Net Neutrality, the Semantic Web, plus some comments on science by the mayor of New York". "Science Talk" with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. May 31, 2006.

Topics: Responsibility, Government, Cells

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Topics: Country, Jobs, Government

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

Topics: Book, Law, Want

If you look at who starts new businesses, people that are innovative and risk takers. When you look at immigrants, you really have to be an innovator and a risk taker to leave everything you know in the old country and go to a new country. People that come here in America come here to work.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Country, People, Risk, New Business

[Donald] Trump I've known because we cut ribbons together at golf courses and that sort of thing. He's a pleasant guy when you're with him. I've played golf with him twice, oh, probably 10, 15 years ago.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Cutting, Golf, Years

I make no secret of the fact that I was not a big Hillary Clinton supporter, but I thought in the two-way race between her and Donald Trump, that she should have been the president. But Trump promised a lot of things. And now he's six months in and hasn't passed a piece of legislation yet. Now, I personally have said we should help him. I didn't vote for him. I didn't think he was the right person. But once we have an election and he gets elected, then we have a responsibility as citizens to help him.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Responsibility, Thinking, Secret

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

Topics: Air, Disease, Steps

Keep in mind, Mike Bloomberg's kids and grandkids are breathing that air just like the coalminers' families are breathing that air. And the coalminers are the ones that have the conflict. They want their jobs, I understand that. They need to be able to feed their families. They also have to worry about their health and the health of their families.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Kids, Worry, Mind

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

Topics: Air, Water, Tree

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

source: - "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, votesmart.org. August 1, 2010.

Topics: Cutting, Republican, Spending, Spending Cuts, Paralysis

The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Stupid, Thinking, Guy, Not Stupid

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

source: - "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

Topics: Thinking, Long, Agendas

I like what I see when I look in the mirror. If I get sentimental, I look and say, "Uh. It's a bad day. They beat up on me," this, that, and the other thing. But ya know? We've spent one billion trying to convince people to not smoke. It's been phenomenally successful. We've probably saved millions of lives. There aren't many people that have done that. So, you know, when I get to heaven, I'm not sure I'm gonna stand for an interview. I'm going right in.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Bad Day, Successful, People

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Topics: Change, Success, Business, Moral Compass

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

Topics: Believe, Proud, Judaism

Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

Topics: Running, Night, Gun, Illegal Guns

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.

Topics: Party, Reading, College, Electoral College

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Topics: Health, Cities, Cost, Health Care Costs

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

Topics: Government, Purpose, Should

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Country, Independent, Winning

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Thinking, Average, Long

We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Cutting, Care, Health Care

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

source: - Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

Topics: Kings, May, Pay, Partisanship

Fifty percent of the world's population lives in cities. In a couple of decades, 70 percent of the world's population will be living in cities. Cities are where the problem is. Cities are where the solution is, where creativity exists to address the challenges and where they have most impact. This is why, in 2005, the C40 was founded, an organization of cities that address climate change. It started with 18 cities; now it's 91. Cities simply are the key to saving the planet.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Couple, Creativity, Challenges

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

Topics: Lying, Never Lie, Ifs

We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: War, Japan, Long, North Africa

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

source: - Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

Topics: Rushing, Burning, Alive, Sept 11, Burning Buildings

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

source: - "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Doctors, Green Card

A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.

Topics: Bible, Election, Week

Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Helping, Politician

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: War, Kids, Health Education, Best Person

Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public health issue. One out of eight premature deaths worldwide happens because of air pollution. The worst power plant in America kills 278 people a year and causes 445 heart attacks. So, when we improve air quality we improve our lives, and at the same time we improve the climate as well. We must see climate policy from this perspective and not as an abstract threat that may threaten our survival in 100 years.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Heart, People, Perspective, Air Pollution

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: People, Telling The Truth, Blunt, Tell Me The Truth

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

Topics: Sex, Opposites, Information

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

Topics: Mistake, Machines, Done

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Moving, Facts, Republican

Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Mistake, Thinking, Making Mistakes

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

source: - "Polarising mayor Bloomberg to step down after 12 years in office". "AM" with Ben Knight, www.abc.net.au. December 30, 2013.

Topics: World, Free World

I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change action. Even the Chinese government is trying to get people to stop polluting. And I think the federal government level in China is acting more responsibly than the American government.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Thinking, People, Chinese

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

source: - Commencement Address At University Of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, www1.nyc.gov. May 11, 2007.

Topics: New York, Thinking, Cities, Great Outdoors, Cab

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

source: - "Special Report" With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2007.

Topics: Philosophy, Party, Ideas, Moral Philosophy

I don't have a problem with a woman being president; I just want the best candidate.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: President, Want, Problem

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

source: - "Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party". NBC "Meet the Press", www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

Topics: Country, People, Ordinary, Capital Gains

New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.

source: - Michael Bloomberg's Inaugural Address, www.independent.co.uk. January 3, 2002.

Topics: Art, New York, Technology

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

Topics: Jobs, Real, Mean

Look at the streets! The people have smiles on their faces, they're hustling and bustling and going places, they're well-dressed, there's lots of construction going on. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for an economy like this.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Sorry, People, Hustle

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

Topics: Thinking, Chance, Trump

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Thinking, Democracy, Gone

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

Topics: Winning, People, Should

Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.

Topics: Fashion, Ideas, Vision

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

Topics: Advice, Path, Constant

For sure I would prefer Trump had not withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. But the fight against climate change is really done at the local level - whether it's cities, local governments or the private sector, corporate and individual. No matter what Trump says, nobody is going to go back and take the scrubber out or change back to polluting. The damage that Trump can do is if there are countries that are on the fence about whether they want to address the issue, this gives the naysayers, the doubters, those that don't want to do anything, a little more ammunition.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Country, Fighting, Giving, Local Government

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Topics: Success, Business, Responsibility

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Jobs, You Can Make A Difference

We've continued progress in the six months since Trump got elected, and the good thing about what we're doing is that success begets success. As we bring down greenhouse gases, for example, we've closed half of the coal-fired power plants in the country in recent years. There's more impetus to try to close the other half because you can see that it is working. So, you know, I had hoped that Trump would not do that, and it doesn't make any sense to me, but regardless, it is not as cataclysmic as it could be.

source: - Source: www.spiegel.de

Topics: Country, Progress, Trying

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

Topics: People, Risk, Energy

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

source: - "Q&A: Michael Bloomberg on Free Wi-Fi, Crime and Higher Office". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.wired.com. December 20, 2007.

Topics: Believe, Technology, Government

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Topics: New York, Children, School

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

source: - "Bloomberg Calls for National Energy Reforms" by Ray Rivera, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 2007.

Topics: Thinking, Common Sense, Energy, American Values

I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

source: - "Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will 'Have to Change' After Boston Bombing" by Jill Colvin, observer.com. April 22, 2013.

Topics: Winning, Thinking, Want, Categorizing

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

source: - "Police and protesters square off" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2004.

Topics: Fun, Empty, Stomach, Empty Stomach

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Oil, Russian Economy, Way, Chunks, Ussr

I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Party, Believe, Thinking

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Party, Two, Too Much, Two Party System

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

Topics: People, Trying, Together, Aisle

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Topics: Cities, America, Crime, Crime Rates, Large Cities

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

source: - "NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg endorses Barack Obama - US politics live" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2012.

Topics: Reason, Should, Threat, Homeland Security

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Topics: New York, Cities, Trying

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

Topics: America, Decision, Would Be, Personnel

Government is dysfunctional.

source: - "Pols Seek Middle Way in Oklahoma". "The Bryant Park Project" with Alison Stewart, Daniel Holloway, www.npr.org. January 8, 2008.

Topics: Government

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

source: - "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

Topics: Jobs, Government, House

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Smart, Guy, Immigration, Smart Guy

I cannot for the life of me understand why the American market keeps going up. Our economy has some real challenges. The infrastructure's falling apart. We're destroying jobs with technology. We are keeping the best and the brightest from around the world from coming to America to create new jobs and create new businesses. All of those things would give you pause to worry about the future.

source: - Source: www.cbsnews.com

Topics: Real, Fall, Technology, New Business

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Believe, People, Giving

If I remember, Russia, 20 or 30 years ago, you'd get shot trying to leave. Today, Russian tourists are all over the world. You have Russian oligarchs with big yachts all over the world.

source: - Source: asia.nikkei.com

Topics: Russia, Years, Trying

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