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I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

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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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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We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.
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Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
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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.
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Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples
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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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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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[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.
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We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.
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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.
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Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.
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I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.
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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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There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it it's some people coming multiple times.
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You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.
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Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
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I don't have a problem with a woman being president I just want the best candidate.
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