Michael Bloomberg Quotes
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Michael Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001. He ran for re-election in 2005 and won a second term.
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Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.
"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
"Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy."
"In God we trust. Everyone else bring data."
"We're the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated."
"In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab."
"We're not going to deport 12 million people, so let's stop this fiction."
"One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite."
"Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute."
"Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it."
"Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.”
"Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!"
On his performance in college: "I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible."
"If you want to get the best people to run for office, we’ve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot."
"It boggles the mind that nearly two centuries after Darwin, and 80 years after John Scopes was put on trial, this country is still debating the validity of evolution."
"What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out."
"We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy."
"Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States."
“I don't know if Bernie Madoff got his idea from there, but if there's ever a Ponzi scheme, people say Madoff was the biggest? Wrong. Social Security is, far and away,"
"...[W]e’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."