Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
Michael "Mike" Rubens Bloombergis an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist. With a net worth of US$46.7 billion as of July 2016, Bloomberg is the 6th richest person in the United States and the 8th richest in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.
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Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.
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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.
You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race.
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You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.
I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.
I'm not going to run for president. No way, no how.
I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.
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I have the best job I could possibly have.
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The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.
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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.
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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.
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I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.