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When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.
Michael Bloomberg
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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg
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