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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Bank Manager
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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Trader
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Boston
Massachusetts
Michael Rubens Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg
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I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.
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If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.
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We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.
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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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Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work
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Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.
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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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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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Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.
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[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.
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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.
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Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.
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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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I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.
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The problem of dealing with the financial industry is being addressed today. You can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem.
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I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
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I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change action. Even the Chinese government is trying to get people to stop polluting. And I think the federal government level in China is acting more responsibly than the American government.
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We'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.
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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.
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Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.
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