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Former Mayor Of New York City Inspirational Quotes (315)

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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.
Michael Bloomberg
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You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.
Rudy Giuliani
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Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it back to its sense of confidence... All of these immigrants that come here help us with the work they do, they challenge us with new ideas and new perspectives, and they give us perspective.
Rudy Giuliani
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We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
Michael Bloomberg
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I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.
Michael Bloomberg
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I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
David Dinkins
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Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
Michael Bloomberg
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I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.
Michael Bloomberg
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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.
Michael Bloomberg
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You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.
Rudy Giuliani
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I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them we have to be able to figure out who they are.
Rudy Giuliani
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Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.
Rudy Giuliani
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And it's a little - very humbling to think that running for president of the United States is - for a kid from Brooklyn, it's quite a step.
Rudy Giuliani
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While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there'd be a real choice.
Rudy Giuliani
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Here's why nuclear defense makes sense. And I know something about this. A missile can take an airplane out of the air. A better missile can take a missile out of the air.
Rudy Giuliani
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Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.
Rudy Giuliani
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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.
Michael Bloomberg
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Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.
Rudy Giuliani
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Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.
Michael Bloomberg
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There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.
Michael Bloomberg
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I have eight times online since January [2016] in which Hillary Clinton has had massive coughing fits in which she couldn't complete her speech. I've seen her lifted onto airplanes. And I don't know what's wrong with her.
Rudy Giuliani
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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.
Michael Bloomberg
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Now, do I think the tax code should be simplified? Absolutely. Will Donald Trump do away with things like this? He probably is better positioned than anyone to figure out how to do away with it, because he understands the tax code better than anyone else.
Rudy Giuliani
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Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.
Michael Bloomberg
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