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Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.

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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
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And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.
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What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
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I'd love to have a president who really was out there leading and traveling around the world campaigning for joint climate change action. Even the Chinese government is trying to get people to stop polluting. And I think the federal government level in China is acting more responsibly than the American government.
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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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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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Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.
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Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.
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We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.
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You can't sit there and worry about everything.
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You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, Do you believe 'em?
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If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.
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Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
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I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.
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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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We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
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I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.
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You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
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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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Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.
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