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

Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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Boston
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.
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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.
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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.
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Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.
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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.
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After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
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Government is dysfunctional.
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I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.
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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.
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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.
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If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.
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After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.
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[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.
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What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
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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.
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