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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
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Bank Manager
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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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I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.
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Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.
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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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We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.
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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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I thought Jeb Bush would have made a good president. He was on the board of my foundation. He's very conservative, much too conservative for me.
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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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Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.
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You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
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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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By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.
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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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Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.
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Government is dysfunctional.
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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.
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Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom
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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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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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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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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
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