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In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that you go elsewheres.

Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
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I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
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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 [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 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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The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?
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The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.
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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 people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.
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Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
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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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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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If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
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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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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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If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.
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You bet I did and I enjoyed it.
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I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
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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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I think that ... none of [the candidates in he third party] have the courage to do what's right for the country. And I have, now, two grandchildren, which I didn't have before. I'd like to leave them a better world.
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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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