Michael Bloomberg Quotes
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Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.
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After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
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What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
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A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.
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You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.
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The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
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The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
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My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.
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There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.
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We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.
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Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.
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We will go forward... we will never go back.
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We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
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What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.
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Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.
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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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When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.
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I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.
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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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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
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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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Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.
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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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Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.
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If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.
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I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.
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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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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'd be happy to provide advice if anybody asked me no matter who the President is.
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We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
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