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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
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You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.
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America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.
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There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
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Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.
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In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.
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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.
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Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
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You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
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In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.
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Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.
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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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[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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We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
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Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.
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In New York City, a lot of people think the great outdoors is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
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Government is dysfunctional.
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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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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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We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
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