Michael Bloomberg Quotes

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Michael Bloomberg

Profession : Politician

Birth : February 14, 1942

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

Michael Bloomberg

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.

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.

Michael Bloomberg

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

Michael Bloomberg

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.

Michael Bloomberg

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

Michael Bloomberg

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.

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

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

Michael Bloomberg

We will go forward... we will never go back.

Michael Bloomberg

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Michael Bloomberg

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.

Michael Bloomberg

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

Michael Bloomberg

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.

Michael Bloomberg

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.

Michael Bloomberg